Re: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions
From: "Chris DeBoe" <LASERLIGHT@Q...>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:15:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [FT] Taskforce and Fleet Actions
> >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.
No, because the FTL jumps explicitly have an effect on the personnel
that
requires recovery time.
> 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.
Maybe "a string of", like Traveller xboats which jump in, transmit the
message, then the recipient boat jumps out for the next leg. Not the
same