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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Um, you can fire many things from a standard articulated launcher on a USN warship, including SM-1 and SM-2 SAMs, ASROCs and Harpoons, but you can't fire a Mk 46 torpedo or a Sea Sparrow from it, despite the similar or lesser dimensions. :) As for tactics, who says a carrier ought to hold back? If the fighters are simple force multipliers, and you can deploy them from a Main Battle Ship without having to build a special wimpy US-style carrier for them, why not go for it? Especially in the case of the Borg battle, little could have been won by keeping the carriers safely in the rear echelons. Ditto, really, for the mad sallies into Dominion planetary defences or blockade fleets, where the goal apparently was to fire as many shots as possible and cull the rows of the enemy as rapidly as possible. Naval tactics in general did not favor the use of reserves back in the days when guns were the main armament. The side that brought the largest number of guns to the battle won the battle: the one with more guns has the faster *rate* of inflicting losses on the enemy, so the enemy loses his guns at a faster rate as well, and the threat against you decreases progressively. Play "Command & Conquer" with big armor formations and see what I mean. Carriers and missiles changed that fact by giving different ships dissimilar engagement ranges. But in Trek, there are no dissimilar ranges - the difference made by the fighters is necessarily minor, due to their limited speed versus the capital ships. So naturally, a carrier has a perfect excuse to pull double duty as a gun cruiser. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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