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Aktungbby · 01-30-15, 11:52 AM

Nope! much as I love the BB's especially the USS Iowa, the drill in the Persian Gulf a few years back and the current Chinese sat technology to take out big ships preclude the expense. The old gunboat diplomacy with national prestige reflections and Great White Fleets are long gone. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2026.cfm

01-30-15, 11:52 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,997 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	reconsidering Operation Millennium Challenge Nope! much as I love the BB's especially the USS Iowa, the drill in the Persian Gulf a few years back and the current Chinese sat technology to take out big ships preclude the expense. The old gunboat diplomacy with national prestige reflections and Great White Fleets are long gone. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2026.cfm __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!