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If anyone happens to be scared by malware warning given out by google in their browser such as Firefox or Chrome I'd just want to say don't. I hope Neal is able to get it sorted eventually.
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@Schwieger: So install it and install either LWAMI or DWX! I'm playing with DWX 1.2 myself. It's a hell of a game!
@ETR3(SS): Hmm yea but even one typical heavy weight torpedo would probably cause system shock causing multiple system failures and fire and forcing the sealing of water tight compartments to prevent flooding from sinking the entire vessel. The torpedo doesn't have to break her keel or break her in two to sink her. Even a single typical heavy weight torpedo may disable her if a carrier didn't come with enough water tight compartments and especially if she kept sailing with a hole under her keel. A disabled carrier may not be a sunk carrier but its combat value then would be the same as being a loss or significantly reduced and even when not completely or significantly disabled the carrier would be forced to reduce speed and becomes a liability with increased noise caused by her deformed under water hull and forcing the whole battle group to reduce speed to match hers.
There's simply no under the keel protection of water borne vessel. Heck even there's no longer side armor belt found on WWI and WWII era battleships to protect the ship's side from both shell and side torpedo attack.
The terrorist attack on USS Cole for example has been cited by Russians to have caused a total loss for the US Navy of the said vessel(I don't know the accuracy of that claim but The first vessel of the class took less than a year to complete while USS Cole underwent 14 months of repair!). Sea borne vessel is just vulnerable. Another example is the British loss of warship due to a single hit of anti ship missile and to think a torpedo as a much lethal weapon carrying far larger warhead than a relatively small flying missile warhead.
and a quote from history
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HMS Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier in WWII, was sunk by only one torpedo
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But of course non heavy weight torpedo has a much lesser chance of inflicting systemic damage to a modern super aircraft carrier. Most countries which operate submarines don't even have heavy weight torpedo in their arsenal.