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Gregor · 04-03-2008, 22:03 PM

My semi-informed opinion is the FFG-7. But it wasn't design to be an uber-boat. Actually had a rudder or two fall off in the not too distant past. And, some of my colleagues are retired Surface Warfare guys, one being the XO of a FFG-7. His job in the battlegroup was to get into the Lima-6 position if a torpedo (wake homer) came in...he was the passive-kill countermeasure in the pre-nixie/SLQ-25 days...

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Gregor *Defense Professional* Join Date: 03-31-08 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 8 Country:	My semi-informed opinion is the FFG-7. But it wasn't design to be an uber-boat. Actually had a rudder or two fall off in the not too distant past. And, some of my colleagues are retired Surface Warfare guys, one being the XO of a FFG-7. His job in the battlegroup was to get into the Lima-6 position if a torpedo (wake homer) came in...he was the passive-kill countermeasure in the pre-nixie/SLQ-25 days...