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Originally Posted by B.Smitty
Hmm.. Well I personally don't feel the supposed "deficiency in NGFS" is really one of our nation's most pressing military problems, so reactivating ancient BBs wouldn't be where I'd spend the money.
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If it were to help our marines/troops take whatever ground or beachhead they needed to in order to fufill their mission how can we put a price tag on it in a realistic sense when for surely the DDX program far exceeds the funding needed
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two of them to have in stand by status. If we are expected to achieve our military goals whatever they may bring then we should also have the means to achieve these goals with a limited amount of risk and or casuality to our troops by giving them the supportive fire needed. IMO a five inch gun is not going to achieve this. And if we were not to have air superiority then what will we protect them with outside of extremely expensive missles and or bombs.
For if that needs to happen then get the calculator out to configure the final bill for supportive fire. It will far exceed the cost of 16" dumb shells.
I side with the ones that are taking that ground or beach head and what they need to be capable of doing just that in a limited amount of time.