RE: [FT] DDs and DHs inspired by WW2 types

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Most warships have all their guns on one side of a ship--the top.
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But not Aeronef! ;->=

Actually, several pre-WWII battleships had below-waterline torpedo
tubes, I
hope an acceptable stretch of the term 'guns'.

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Modern naval ships are NOT the best design for space, and should come
out
the worst for wear in Full Thrust.
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Well, most current space vehicles are indeed designed like naval ships,
long and pointy, but that's mostly due to the time getting TO space. I'm
just not sure that at some point, long and somewhat pointy hulls for
high
thrust vehicles might not still be the most effective, perhaps to keep
the
weight centered on the thrust line.

Can't effectively argue: not an engineer. Just a gut feeling.

Everyone seems to take parts of the naval analogy, just different parts.
Dangers of generlizing and all that.

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