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-{SpoonmaN}- · 06-05-2007, 05:25 AM

lol why bother making the ship L/O? WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE STEALTHED? With a ship like this, the only value added as I see it would be as a massed NGFS platform, since the USN has plenty of VLS cells to go around. Generally speaking, you wouldn't be conducting NGFS against an opponent who was still in shape to attack your ships from the shore with anything, because if they can hit this thing then they could do a lot more damage to a transport which would in all likelyhood be even closer inshore to disembark troops. Seems to me like the 'designer' has simply decided to put as much of every concievable gadget onto this thing as they can, and stealth is the gadget of today.

06-05-2007, 05:25 AM	#12 (permalink)
-{SpoonmaN}- Death, the Destroyer of Worlds... *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 09-08-04 Location: The badlands of West London. Posts: 1,455 Country:	lol why bother making the ship L/O? WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE STEALTHED? With a ship like this, the only value added as I see it would be as a massed NGFS platform, since the USN has plenty of VLS cells to go around. Generally speaking, you wouldn't be conducting NGFS against an opponent who was still in shape to attack your ships from the shore with anything, because if they can hit this thing then they could do a lot more damage to a transport which would in all likelyhood be even closer inshore to disembark troops. Seems to me like the 'designer' has simply decided to put as much of every concievable gadget onto this thing as they can, and stealth is the gadget of today. __________________ "I have this to say to the people of Australia: Kick me, I'm different."