Re: I'm back

At 1:37 PM -0500 7/3/04, <warbeads@juno.com> wrote:
>I guess it depends if you see the future of "waterborne warfare" as
>Submariner's Fantasy ("Submarines and targets" School of projection) or
>whether detection improves to allow surface (unlikely) or
>airborne/spaceborne?? (possible) units to combat sub reasonably well.

Well, the Tuffleyverse has a description of large 
battles fought over water with Hovercraftr and 
GRAV vehicles. A grav platform seems ideal for 
waterborne fights in that its fast and has a low 
water disturbance profile for its speed.

I suspect a submarine would have a hard time with 
a small force of fast tanks. But how would the 
tanks deal with the sub? Homing torps once they 
have a localized location? Sono-buoys seem the 
ideal means of checking for the craft.
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