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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
Former SSBN's? Pretty poor launch platform, esepcially considering SM-3 is already there and paid for.
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How? the SSGNs have been modified to launch Tomhawks so launching SM-3s is within the realm of reality and budget constraits. If we end up dealing the a country like Russia or China that has lots of territory and can move its ICBM force around its possable that that country could move their ICBM force to areas where 1st and 2nd stage interception is less likely. Convert SSBNs and they gain the same advantage as the ones carring SLBMs- potental enemyies don't know where they are. Plus it greatly decreses the odds of having SM-3 DDGs taken out by submarines or airstrikes in the early stages of a conflict, those Ohios are damn hard to find after all. Also it adds the possablity of arming NATO and allied SSBNs with ABM systems, remember that France and the UK have a SSBN force with the RNs boats having almost the same system as US SSBNs (both have Trident) making converson easyer. Very few NATO countries have ships with VLS systems (Spain is one that comes to mind) unless the SM-3 has been modified to fire from One Armed Bandits (MK 13s).
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Converted carriers into big radar ships? Right...
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Why not they took the Iwo Jima class hull design and turned it in to a pair of anphib command ships (
Blue Ridge Class). Besides that big radar platform that was designed to operated off Alaska is a pile of junk that can't stand up to the operating envorment. A CV Hull gives both the space and the speed to operate where needed.
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Oh, and I would hardly give GWB the honor of being called an Air Force Puke, but that's for a different thread.
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Agreed, but a more apt discription would just end up coming out like %$#& ##%$ @#%$!!!
