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to: Adam Flinton
from: Robert Bononno
date: 2002-12-14 20:00:00
subject: Re: Spanish-US Piracy

From: "Robert Bononno" 

What's a "capital ship" by the way?

Adam Flinton  wrote in message
news:3dfb0f07{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.18644982ac409c9198b180{at}news.barkto.com...
> > Out of darkness, Adam Flinton says...
> > > Go ask your Navy if a given ship has nukes on board.
> >
> > I've been through too many "broken arrow" exercises to
deny that they are
> on board
> > certain ships.
> >
>
> Obviously they're on board capital ships (CVN/SSBN). It's a question of if
> they're on something like an Arleigh Burke & similar sized vessels. SSN's
> are normally not found so not in the equation however most countries with a
> coastline know there could be ssn'es with nuke tipped cruise right off their
> coast right now.
>
> Adam
>
>
>

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