| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Naval Military Might (Submarines and Drone Fighters) |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:40:06 -0400 |
>One proposal being debated at the moment is to take the four oldest
>Ohio-class SSBNs, remove their Trident missiles and fire control, and put
They shouldn't be debating- the Navy should be doing. Until the West
Virginia is anything more than plans, we have no subs that are really
capable of dealing with the covert and "missions-other-than-war" work we've
been asking them do for the past ten years. Boomers are quiet, and these
babes have pleny to convertable room.
>into lockout chambers, apparently, for SEALs to do their stuff through)
>One hundred and fifty-four TLAMs. Ouch :)
<droool>
>The tactical problem is always recovery: the enemy just has to follow your
>drones home to find the launching ship, and a submarine sacrifices a lot of
>"stand and fight" ability in order to submerge. But, with drones or
One shot drones are one way. Basically cruise missiles with the ability
to protect themselves and strike secondary targets enroute.
>aircraft, you're stuck on the surface broadcasting a lot of EM - if you have
Autopilot, anyone? (Unless SR3/R2 say that drones are no longer atonomous
(sp)) You can also use satellite tranmission, with the controlers located
someplace other than the sub, which just gets them there.
>to submerge, your drones are uncontrolled and all your aircraft are
>suddenly minus a landing strip.
May be not. Tightbeam microwave-to-sat-to-surface links are pretty hard
to pick up, and a laser based system would be almost impossible. (although
the dowlink would be a grade A pain in the butt to engineer)
Combine that with a low-profile conn, and low-observability construction,
and you might be able to do it.
CyberRaven
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