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Originally Posted by B.Smitty
It's more of a problem when the distances are short to begin with and when they're intermingled with regular shipping.
Think USS Cole executed simultaneously on a number of warships.
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USS Cole wasn't underway and manuevering. She was a sitting duck, and not in any way prepared. Not at General Quarters, slack security, and permitting a potential threat to come into actual contact.
I see the point you're making, but it would simply be inconceivable in this day to imagine any circumstance whatsoever that a US warship could be approached AT ALL, even singly, by any craft displaying a known threat profile, and as for a flotilla making for her? NO WAY.
Unless every sensor was down and the Officer of the Deck was heads-down while working his sodoku while the skipper was asleep during close passage to an enemy coastline, I simply don't see EVER having to worry about small-craft attacks, whether singly, massed, or dropped from Heaven.