Re: Slow planes was: Battle blimps

At 2:53 AM +1000 4/20/02, Derek Fulton wrote:
>At 12:49  19/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>Possibly it can knock out an air threat or two.  I
>>would not be my life on it knocking out them all.
>>
>>Magic
>
>What about more conventional armerments? It's not like these 
>blimps/rigid airships are going to be feather weights in the cargo 
>carrying department.

They could carry AAMs themselves. Heck, they could probably carry a 
brace of SM2 missiles and direct them as well as handle OTH for other 
ships.

US Navy Blimps in WWII protected convoys and hunted subs. No convoy 
escorted by blimps was ever attacked successfully.
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