----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Agretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Battlestar Galactica
> > One thing I've always thought silly was the whole > > idea of carriers in > > space. Air craft carriers work well because the > > planes they launch travel > > in a different medium than the ships: air vs. water. > > Carriers in space are > > like two battle groups of large ships launching a > > number of small boats to > > engage in combat. > > I'm not so sure about that. One of the reasons > carriers were effective (and still are) is because you > can fight your enemy at an arms distance...you don't > have to close with him. In this context a carrier > essentially becomes a battle transport for smaller > attack craft, that can then be used to defend the ship > at an arms distance, or to launch attacks of their > own. The best protection a ship can have is to NOT > expose itself to enemy guns... Right, but why do we only have aircraft carriers, and not small boat carriers for fleet vs. fleet operations? IMHO, its because aircraft has a different set of tradeoffs from boats/ships. I cannot imagine a carrier of, say PT boats being effective in fleet to fleet operations. If they were effective, wouldn't we have had at least one PT carrier in a fleet? Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
