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  1. Keep Battleships In Service?

    Even a bigger problem than the fact that battleships are obsolete is that, well, there are no naval battles involving powers large enough to have battleships. The U.S. hasn't had a significant naval battle since the end of WW II. The last significant engagement by any major power was the RN in...
  2. Re-introduction of the Merchant Aircraft Carrier...

    The ROK and ROC troops are anything but 2nd rate. The ROK troops are some of the best on Earth (not to mention being flat scary bastards). Problem with having the registry country provide forces is that better than 40% of big cargo vessels are Liberian, Marshall Island or Panamanian registry...
  3. Re-introduction of the Merchant Aircraft Carrier...

    The cost would be way out of proportion to the problem. The solution, assuming one wants to kill the arrow instead of the archer (which would be messy and politically difficult but also far cheaper and more effective in the long term) is to simply employ guards on the ships. The ships are...
  4. Aircraft that should never have seen service

    The Soviets actually built the Tu-22 Blinder and the Tu-22M Backfire. The "M" is as different from the Tu-22A-E as the brothers in the movie Twins are from each other. The Tu-22 is failed light bomber with a fixed wing geomentry and a 9,000 pond bombload. The Tu-22M is a strategic heave...
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