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

[Ground Zero Games <jon@xxxxxxx>]

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

> On 5/17/07, Doug Evans <devans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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