RE: Wet Navy in the future was

At 3:10 PM +1100 11/30/01, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
>G'day,
>
> > Another thought - what presence will there be on planets of
> > 'traditional wet' Navy forces?
>
>Depending on the planet I'd say a fair bit, but I'm kinda biased when
it
>comes to things marine ;)

I'd expect to see lots of smaller vessels and brown water navy stuff 
on the edge of controlled spheres of influence. Smaller vessels up to 
frigate size would be useful on some worlds for Coast Guard type 
duties. I'd expect that anything larger could be handled by orbital 
installations firing down or sending down Aero space fighters to 
support the small stuff. Most roles would be coast guard type S&R or 
Police work.

I base this on the assumption that most of the worlds that have 
enough population to warrant spreading out amongst multiple 
continents would be well protected by space borne naval assets. You 
figure those would have some bulk transport across water ways.

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