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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Then again, it's highly unlikely that there will ever be any "fleet action" again in the history of this planet. The United States is the only power in the world today that can afford to have a fleet in the first place. What some other nations might call fleets have no hope of getting to engagement range of individual USN ships, let alone fleets. And the only thing the USN can do with its fleet is to support overland operations with carriers, bombardment ships, AA ships and amphibious assaults, as well as offer near-harbor protection(as opposed to en-route protection) to commercial or military shipping. None of these involves fighting with other warships, not any more. There is absolutely no point in anybody trying to challenge the USN supremacy by building a bigger and badder fleet. More probably, everybody else will move away from the outdated concept of naval warfare, subsequently resulting in withering of the USN as well (but not any time soon). Less probably, somebody will bother to invent a type of missile (be it a complex stealthy flying thing or a dirt-cheap suicide boat) that cannot be countered by warship defenses, and use that either to sink the USN, or offer enough risk of this happening that the USN will be retired. Only in a scenario where the civilization significantly devolves technologically and industrially would actual naval combat return as a viable warfighting method. Of course, that [i]may[/i] also happen when the oil finally runs out. I wouldn't really count on it, though. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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