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Old 09-19-2005, 08:29 AM   #36 (permalink)
B.Smitty
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Originally Posted by Defcon 6
Provide a source for that.

Regardless, as I said, cruise missiles always have a use for targets out of range of the BB guns. For those within range, it's more efficient. Besides, my BB has VLS systems. Quite a few of them.

Okey doke.

Kuwait City (on the coast) to Baghdad - 344 miles.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...33&long=48.000

Karachi, Pakistan (on the coast) to Kabul, Afghanistan - 678 miles.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...00&long=69.167

Your ship has VLS cells, but it's raison d'être is its guns. Your provided two cases where, in your opinion, guns would've been preferable to TLAMs. My goal was to refute those cases.
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