Next message: Rosalie B.: "Re: lv-ab: hybrid power system"
In a message dated 2/2/03 2:26:57 AM Atlantic Standard Time,
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> It reminds me of the *measures* taken along Carrier Row in Norfolk after
> 9/11. *They* strung out a floating rope, like is used in swimming pools to
> mark the shallow end, about 200 yards from the ships and had a patrol boat
> with some guys with guns roaming around. If I were a terrorist and wanted
> to harm a ship I would simply load up a high speed Cigarette style boat
> with jet drives (no protrusions under the hull to catch the floating line)
> with a half ton of high explosives and a remote control on the throttle and
> steering. A couple of dummies in the cockpit and some armor plate around
> the engine. Zoom it along the channel at high speed until the belly of the
> target carrier was open on the bow then turn and head right for the hull.
> Short of a heavy weapon already trained on the speedboat, nothing would
> stop it before it reached it's target.
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> Post 9/11 ??
..................... KEWL !
If any terrorist a##hole were to try such an attack, I would just
ask they please let me know in advance.
You see, I would like to be there ahead of the event, so I can watch
the PHALANX weapon fire up, and turn the " high speed cigarette boat"
into
instant goulash.
The attacker would get maybe twenty or thirty yards over the boundary
before
about two thousand 20mm tungsten rounds would be blasted right through
the entire boat, engines, armor and all.
Hey .......... I think there may be an answer to the PWC problem......
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/weapons/wep-phal.html
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