Re: Fw: Carriers and other updates

In a message dated 7/5/99 8:06:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ScottSaylo@aol.com writes:

> 
>  You were actually ON the Pegasus hydrofoil -  talk about the "wet"
Navy. 
Oh, 
> 
>  well the USN decided to let the Israelis have all the fun with their 
missile 
> 
>  boat fleet. Of course, with all that speed the hydrofoils still have
to 
use 
>  slow speed stalks to close on a target, because the "rooster-tail" of

water 
>  streaming up by and behind the hydrofoil at speed makes a HUGE radar 
return. 
> 
>  Wouldn't hydrofoils with the right emitters have made a handy-deandy
decoy 
>  for the big vulnerable carriers!
>  

I can just see the look on the oppositions face as the CV they just
targeted 
took off at over 40 knots! LOL
Actually we thought of our tactics as more cat-like. Stalking prey
slowly, or 
laying in wait. Then when we had a good target solution, going foilborne
and 
attacking at speed. Something like a cheetah on the Discovery channel.
But 
with a better average, if our exercises were any judge.