Re: [GZG] Re: Ship Roles & Classes Part Deux

When you think about the power projection torpedo
boats were always there to take out heavier vessles
quickly and cheaply. They are still used today as
heavy patrol boats with missles and torpedoes.
--- Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> >On 5/17/07, Doug Evans 
> ><<mailto:devans@nebraska.edu>devans@nebraska.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>  By the way, despite the WWII movie title, those
> of us who
> >>  have crewed modern "strikeboat" equivalents find
> the word
> >>  "expendable"...........unsettling. :-)
> >
> >I have to admit the vision of penal units came to
> mind briefly. However,
> >I'm sure the brave part was that Jon intended to
> have the emphasis.
> >
> >Throwing very small craft at very big ones, while
> occasionally successful,
> >certainly suggested a certain expendability in the
> minds of the battle
> >planners. Interesting, that in 'radical' naval
> thought, there were periods
> >when small torpedo craft vied with aircraft as to
> be the future doom of big
> >ship navies.
> >
> >
> >I have a brother who used to serve on a missile
> frigate. They were 
> >often escorts for carrier battle groups. He said
> with no mincing of 
> >words that they were considered expendable, and
> that their job was 
> >that of the classic Bonzai Jammers in FT/Honor
> Harrington.
> 
> 
> So very small trees have ECM effects....?
> 
> [Runs and hides from NBS!!]
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
> >
> >Of course, very few navies out there at the time he
> was in could 
> >have seriously threatened a carrier battle group,
> so the whole thing 
> >was pretty academic in the minds of he and his
> crew. But I believe 
> >they would have totally offered up their ship to
> save a missile hit 
> >or four on the carrier. That was, after all, what
> they were trained 
> >to do.
> >
> >Brave. But expendable. :-/
> >
> >
> >Mk
> >
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