Re: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 3:44 PM -0400 8/14/01, Chris DeBoe wrote:
>
>Kind of like saying "With aerial tanking, an Eagle can fly at Mach 1.2
>non-stop all the way from California to Kuwait."  Well, yes, but it
wouldn't

Its probably more like a CVN trucking from Norfolk to the Med at 32+ 
knots. There isn't a need for Unreps (unless FT ships have a fuel 
tank we don't really show..), they don't zigzag and excepting for the 
working up cruise they normally go through prior to a deployment for 
training, they're ready to get on the ball.

Naturally in FT, there isn't a possibility for groups of ships to 
stay together so she's on her own for the most part between jumps. 
But then the open vastness of space where these jumps occur make 
being found hard.

>be a good idea to go straight into combat when you arrive.  My
impression is
>that you don't make 6 hour jump cycles unless it's critical ("there's 
a SDN
>division coming towards us--6.5 hours to intercept") or possibly if you
only
>need a couple of cycles to get there and you believe you'll have
recovery
>time on the other end before you go into action.

Granted. However when war occurs, you do have operational tempo that 
isn't always as paced as you like it to be. Transfers of units into 
theatre occur with ships far faster than ground combat units tend to 
be. Look at the Solomon islands campaign during WWII. DDs and CAs 
were getting rotated in and out at a bloody absurd rate and no one 
had time to get aclimated before getting thrown into action. All they 
could rely on was training and doctrine.

Naturally there is a balance between arriving too late and arriving 
strung out, worn out and tired out like the Baltic Sea fleet did at 
Tsushima...

I was looking at absolute shortest time. A military packet ship on a 
shortest time to point for major flag signals would take this route 
likely.

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