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Old 11th Nov 2020, 20:39
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I think that using air delivered torpedos against warships has been considered suicidal since the loss of the US Navy torpedo bomber squadrons at Midway. To deliver a torpedo would mean flying low and slow. Additionally heavyweight torpedos are wire guided - firing unguided weapons over anything other than a short range is futile.

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Really? How do you protect the merchant vessels that carry the bulk of the World's trade without surface warships? How do you protect amphibious forces and crisis response shipping?

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