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Originally Posted by Bellman
UUVs: I suspect that there are many good reasons why the topic and the LwAmi modding of UUVs will end in a 'blind alley.'
It would just be kinda nice to shuffle a little further nearer to what cannot be mere paper illusions !
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It depends on what you think is a paper illusion. Right now, the only operational UUV is the LMRS. Everything else exists either only on paper, or else is a university or corporate research project. Heck, a coworker of mine just got back from a conference and apparently one of the engineers trying to sell one to the Navy works out of his garage. The whole UUV thing is REALLY rough right now. I don't see that it's going to change for a while.
UUVs will probably be used for ASW in the future somehow. It's not really clear how, though. The big challenge is how to fit a sensor on it. The only one I know of that looks like a really reasonable ASW weapon because it tows a VDS, the Sea Talon, only exists on paper, and is carried by a surface ship. It's too big for a submarine.
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Boredom: My threshold, as you should know (Kara), is very high........usualy !
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So what are you complaining about?
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Salvos: What I fear is the contamination of impressionable newcomers to our sim, who may not see it as an
appropriate tactic in certain circumstances. But a return to 'carpet bombing' thinking.
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I say let 'em carpet bomb. It doesn't help you much if the distance scales for the whole scenario are reasonable. The root cause is not that the tactic itself is bad, but that the scenarios are often inappropriately compact.