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Originally Posted by gunnut
How is that possible?
We throw away billions of dollars on expensive, exotic, unproven weapon systems but we don't have money for stuff that actually works?
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In reference to your concern where I stated that the 25 mm Chain guns had to be swapped from ship to ship.
When Rapid Blooming Overside Chaff (RBOC) first came out, it too was a swap item for ships coming back from Nam to ships going over there. When
New Jersey was over there in 1968 she also had Chaffroc (Chaff rocket) launchers but they stayed aboard when inactivated. But the new and improved SUPER RBOC became a permanent installation on all four BB's in the 80's.
I don't recall if the Rubber Ducky was going to be a permanent installation or not on the BB's as we just started coming up with locations for it when BB funding started to dwindle down and talk of inactivation was dwindling up.