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- From: "MILLER, JIMMY A." <HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu>
- Subject: Re: USS Abe L or Varyag
- Message-ID: <Bzq2un.4rF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:20:47 GMT
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- From "MILLER, JIMMY A." <HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu>
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- In <Bzo8oH.C28@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> mf6940705@v9000.ntu.ac.sg writes:
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- [stuff about the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN deleted]
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- > I don't have much info on that carrier only that it is on sea trials and does
- > npt have an air wing embarked. The design is of a Modified Nimitz class.
- > Much like the difference between the JFK compared to the Kitty Hawk class.
- > However I should think that the new class of Russion carriers especially the
- > Varyag is making more headway. With its compliment of navalised Su27B and
- > Su25 and even Mig29. Coupled with a Aegis-like Phased Array (skywatch)
- > radar, it is an awesome weapon platform. The era of Carrier Duels has just
- > began.
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- I think I've missed something. I thought the Russian had scrapped their
- plans for real carriers. Wasn't the _Varyag_ sold to China?
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- And a nit pick, the age of Carrier Duels will have returned, not begun.
- Carrier Duels began in WWII (and have not happened since, to my knowledge).
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- semper fi,
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- Jammer Jim Miller
- Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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