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Offline Holden McGroin

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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #735 on: August 14, 2008, 02:55:34 AM »
a nuke? Why wait until something is in the Black Sea? hell they have ICBM's that can hit stuff from 8500 miles away.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #736 on: August 14, 2008, 02:57:33 AM »
Quote from: SD67 on August 14, 2008, 02:49:39 AM
I know it's wakypedia, but it's all I can come up with at short notice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
These can be armed with a small nuke that will pretty much vaporise most of the TG without even having to actually hit anything.

Tssk, tsssk. You said nuke...

..perish the thought.

Really. not even putin the magnificent, slayer of grozny, redeemer of the rodina and master of all the russias would not be so stupid.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #737 on: August 14, 2008, 03:01:18 AM »
Yeah but an ICBM is a bit of overkill when a nuke tipped torp can still do the job from 7500 yards+ with minimal footprint and much less collateral damage.
Oh and I agree they probably wouldn't be that stupid. A couple of well placed conventionally armed ones will be just as effective, they travel much to fast for conventional anti torpedo countermeasures to intercept.
I was simply pointing out that your massive TG's are not as invulnerable as you guys seem to think they are.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #738 on: August 14, 2008, 03:11:57 AM »
Quote from: SD67 on August 14, 2008, 03:01:18 AM

I was simply pointing out that your massive TG's are not as invulnerable as you guys seem to think they are.

Ahh.. but you see; we do know they are vulnerable. We also know that any overt act of aggression against a US Warship operating in international waters... no less a US Warship with 3,000 Americans on it, would be viewed as an act of open war.

It's presence is in effect, both a 'balance of power' move in the area AND a 'double-dog dare yah' signal to russia that says we unequivocally support Georgian Sovereignty... and we won't have to fire a shot to make the point.. just have her make an invited port call at Poti. :D   
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #739 on: August 14, 2008, 03:27:23 AM »
Rouge = red in french, Rogue = stray..
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Offline Holden McGroin

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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #740 on: August 14, 2008, 03:32:01 AM »
Quote from: moot on August 14, 2008, 03:27:23 AM
Rouge = red in french, Rogue = stray..

I thought Rogue was a river...
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #741 on: August 14, 2008, 03:41:10 AM »
Quote from: Hangtime on August 14, 2008, 02:43:17 AM
The consequences for such an act...

Can you see condi doing the lil head duck and hand wave?

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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #742 on: August 14, 2008, 03:44:09 AM »
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It's presence is in effect, both a 'balance of power' move in the area AND a 'double-dog dare yah'[/b[ signal to russia that says we unequivocally support Georgian Sovereignty... and we won't have to fire a shot to make the point.. just have her make an invited port call at Poti. Big Grin   

I don't know about that....I think it's more of a jump right to the uber Triple Dog Dare myself.  :devil
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #743 on: August 14, 2008, 03:52:17 AM »
Quote from: SD67 on August 14, 2008, 03:01:18 AM
Yeah but an ICBM is a bit of overkill when a nuke tipped torp can still do the job from 7500 yards+ with minimal footprint and much less collateral damage.
Oh and I agree they probably wouldn't be that stupid. A couple of well placed conventionally armed ones will be just as effective, they travel much to fast for conventional anti torpedo countermeasures to intercept.
I was simply pointing out that your massive TG's are not as invulnerable as you guys seem to think they are.

I'll agree with you here, SD-Insofar as I myself know, no U.S. CVBG has ever had to do anything more than fly off airstrikes' and air interdiction in coastal countries. I don't think they've ever had to actually fight either surface/sub-surface threats' in any of the conflicts' the U.S. has been in since 1945.

But that doesn't mean they don't know how.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #744 on: August 14, 2008, 04:13:58 AM »
I haven't been reading this thread, but 50 pages in 1 week, that has to be some kind of record for "The O' Club".
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #745 on: August 14, 2008, 04:26:01 AM »
Quote from: trax1 on August 14, 2008, 04:13:58 AM
I haven't been reading this thread, but 50 pages in 1 week, that has to be some kind of record for "The O' Club".

It's only 30 pages so far.  :rock
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #746 on: August 14, 2008, 05:15:17 AM »
What I found intriguing was the amount of what I'd see as "old kit" being used by the russians, looked like some old hinds, even Tu-22s? And it sounds like the georgians knocked down a few Su-25's.

So even though the russians rolled through I wouldn't say it was a clean victory.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #747 on: August 14, 2008, 05:38:02 AM »
Quote from: Vulcan on August 14, 2008, 05:15:17 AM
What I found intriguing was the amount of what I'd see as "old kit" being used by the russians, looked like some old hinds, even Tu-22s? And it sounds like the georgians knocked down a few Su-25's.

So even though the russians rolled through I wouldn't say it was a clean victory.

The b52 and A10s are also old but still excellent. That is also the case with the TU-22 and SU25s. The former is still in production.
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #748 on: August 14, 2008, 06:27:39 AM »
Quote from: Elfie on August 14, 2008, 04:26:01 AM
It's only 30 pages so far.  :rock
Take a closer look, it's 50.  Might need some glasses there. :D
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Re: South Osetia under attack
« Reply #749 on: August 14, 2008, 06:36:24 AM »
PWNT!


lets see how long it takes before they push back again.
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