Re: [DS] Why tank destroyers?

Have to check that out... thanks.
In addition to who got the first missile in, though, the DD is spending
a rather expensive missile to knock out one fishing boat equipped with a
few missiles and a few crew members. The dozen fishing boats only have
to make one fairly small hole in the DD to take abig chunk out of South
Korea's defensive capabilities. 

Ryan M Gill wrote:
> 
> At 10:25 AM +0900 9/6/01, Edward Lipsett wrote:
> >This is exactly the same problem with North Korea.
> >The NK Navy is listed as having zillions of ships, and the vast
majority
> >of them are tiny fishing boats and such fitted with missiles. In
theory,
> >they could duke it ou with South Korean DDs and such, losing one or
two
> >fishing boats in return for a rather expensive destroyer... for
obvious
> >reasons, they have to use missiles and not guns.
> 
> Sort of. Modern Naval warfare is entirely different from land warfare
> in a lot of respects. Granted if the SKs don't use any recon they'll
> likely get smacked, but, small FACs with minimal defensive systems
> and poor sensors will have to spend several units as sacrificial
> lambs to get targeting data. The SK's likely would use a helo to
> scout and locate the FAC's and provide their targeting data for their
> missile before the NK's are able to launch there own. The battle
> wouldn't be that of attrition, but of who got the first missile
> launch in.
> 
> There's a book about this stuff that is bloody interesting. Fleet
> Tactics and Coastal Combat by Capt Wayne P Hughes Jr.

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