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Re: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:35:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Thought on Orbital Bombardment...


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From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>

> >I don't understand why so many players are dead set against standard
> ships being able to make orbital bombardments.
>
> Because it makes it much harder to justify ground combat.
>
> > They happened all the time in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc.
>
> True but they didn't reach into the country's interior.
>

No, but bombers could, which are perhaps a better analogue to orbital
bombardment than naval vessels.

Greetings
Karl Heinz

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