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Old 18th Jun 2012, 21:34
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Fire 'n' Forget
 
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Ok stick our carrier in the South China sea, anywhere near N Korea etc and I would guarantee some little diesel electric would get a shot in at it. Every tin pot dictatorship in the world are buying up modern quiet DE's.

The fact that most of them can fire the nasty variant of the SS-N-27 could be an issue, even mad dinnerjacket has bought a few for his little fleet have they sorted this problem yet?

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Our short ranged Dave's are going to be close in to the coast and it isn't hard to work out a rough 'launch box' off the coast nearest the juicy targets.

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