Re: Ship designation decals, suggestions...

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Michael T Miserendino wrote:

> In Traveller and other sci-fi games, I have noticed they have used M
for 
> missile and G for gun.  I guess the assumption is, if you have
missiles they 
> are guided to begin with.

In modern US Naval parlance, the G was added to differentiate from the 
Gun versions that were normally just DD or CA or FF. N was added to 
indicate the Nuclear powered aspects of the ship. 

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