RE: Slow planes was: Battle blimps

At 4:27 PM +1000 4/19/02, Derek Fulton wrote:
>At 09:32  19/04/02 +1000, Beth wrote:
>>Then again satellite coverage may make that a bit
>>redundant.
>
>But the Blimps provide almost satellite like cover at a much reduced 
>cost, so it wouldn't be redundant just cheaper :)

And far easier to retask for fleet tactical operations.

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