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- From: "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
- Subject: Re: CBU against ships?
- Message-ID: <Bzo8uJ.CHC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: AT&T
- References: <BzH50y.AwI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:35:07 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
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- In article <BzH50y.AwI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
- >
- >The thread about battleships and radar made me wonder about the
- >robustness of all the external "eyes and ears" of modern ships and
- >the effectiveness of a saturation CBU attack from multiple directions.
- >Perhaps a "cruise missile kamikaze" attack intended to cover the
- >deck/island/whatnot with shrapnel and poke holes in all those
- >waveguides, phased array antennas, etc. Might make an Aegis-type
- >ship pretty miserable, for instance, or at least force it to expend its
- >surface-to-air stuff in self-defense and be essentially useless for
- >defending the fleet until it could re-cycle.
- >
- >Good idea? Fatal flaw? Simulated and shown not to work?
- >
- If I were attacking a battle group, I would use a saturation attack. The
- trick is, of course, to attack the carrier group before it attacks you.
- Carrier planes have long legs. The best way is to remain undetected.
- Thus, the SSGN. Can you say "Oscar" boys and girls? To me this indicates
- that SOMEBODY thought about it, and thinks it might work.
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- David R. Wells
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- Disclaimer: My opinions, not AT&Ts.
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