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Anon · 06-01-2004, 14:19 PM

"Dont you think that a battlegroup is simply tracked continuesly as soon as it leaves the port?"

Nope.

Only the Russians ever made an attempt to track all our BGs, but even they were unable to. It's awful hard for a 10 knot trawler to keep up with a modern naval battlegroup, lol.

In a wartime environment all such trawlers would be sunk by coastal patrol aircraft before the BG ever left port, or simply have their comms jammed.

"You dont have to search for, you dont have to identify it, you dont need to analyze the pictures, just track its relatively slow progress thus surface warfare department alway knows where each and every US carrier is and where it is headed. Its not a bird, its not a plane (not even a sub), its a slow moving thing the size of a city block surrounded by 6+ other monsters."

If you say so.

06-01-2004, 14:19 PM	#37 (permalink)
Anon New Member Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 0	"Dont you think that a battlegroup is simply tracked continuesly as soon as it leaves the port?" Nope. Only the Russians ever made an attempt to track all our BGs, but even they were unable to. It's awful hard for a 10 knot trawler to keep up with a modern naval battlegroup, lol. In a wartime environment all such trawlers would be sunk by coastal patrol aircraft before the BG ever left port, or simply have their comms jammed. "You dont have to search for, you dont have to identify it, you dont need to analyze the pictures, just track its relatively slow progress thus surface warfare department alway knows where each and every US carrier is and where it is headed. Its not a bird, its not a plane (not even a sub), its a slow moving thing the size of a city block surrounded by 6+ other monsters." If you say so. Last edited by Anon : 06-01-2004 at 14:25 PM.