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Why in the hell Akira was desighned so early?!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Carriers can't be risked? That's just because some idiots build expensive carriers. If they built destroyers with two Harriers and plenty of SSMs apiece, things would be vastly different... Of course, leaving the Harriers ashore, or swapping them for ASW or assault or SAR choppers, would not diminish the destroyer in a major way. So depending on the availability of the planes, and on the mission, the destroyer could launch fighters prior to entering the fray, or then not. Loss of the carrier-combatant would be no big deal, since there would be plenty of other, empty carrier-combatants available to recover the fighters. This is how I'd see the Akira, and most other starship classes as well. They are all carriers AND cruisers to some degree - Akira and Steamrunner simply have a different balance of "carrierhood-vs-cruiserhood" from that of Intrepid (which, as we all know, is a pure carrier with a nominal 120-shuttle capacity) or Defiant. Starfleet is not all that interested in going to the extremes of all-carrier or all-cruiser vessels, however. The one thing that remains is that Akira and Steamrunner are the only known canonical "through-deck" vessels in Starfleet, as long as we accept the bow doors as doors and not just fancy deflectors or reverse impulse engines or something. That should tell us something about the balance of equipment aboard them. And we should be thankful that at least these two ships *have* a balance of equipment, instead of the dull homogeneity of most starships. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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