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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb] 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. [/qb][/QUOTE]That's actually very unlikely: after the USS Cole was attacked via suicide bomber, most of the navy's destroyers (probably all their ships) had the Phalanx anti-missile systems altered so the (insanely powerful) machine guns could fire at approaching ships and at shore positions. Unless the anti-ship missile is completely radar invisible, ships are here to stay in some form or another (though, unlike Starfleet, the tendency is towards smaller multirole vessels). What's hard to fathom with starfleet is why their older ships seem to be barely better than they were in the movie era -with the exception of the Lakota, the Excelsiors were mostly cannon fodder in the war. I dont think we've ever seen an Excelsior even fire torpedos (onscreen) after STVI and no Miranda has used (onscreen again) it's rollbar phasers after STII. A Miranda should be able to dish out a withering amount of firepower (three phaser banks in the saucer, two in the rollbar and the torpedo pod fires both fore and aft)- it should be almost as tough a ship (with a century of refits) as the Defiant- if not as durable or manuverable. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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