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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
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Subject: Re: USS IOWA
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Date: 27 Jun 90 02:10:58 GMT
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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
In article <1990Jun26.024846.15054@cbnews.att.com>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes...
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^ 
^From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
^>From: boulder!snoopy!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (SCOTT MICHAEL C)
^>          ...the ship could be conceivably "mission killed" by topside
^>          blast frag hits to the radars, etc, but the armored optical 
^>          rangefinders would be intact; the fire support could continue.
^ 
^The most effective missile attack against most any modern warship would
^not use a blast/frag warhead, but rather an incendiary warhead.  Remember
^HMS Sheffield, destroyed completely by an Exocet whose warhead did not
^detonate.  This form of attack might be quite effective even against a BB.
^ 
^                                    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
^                                henry@zoo.toronto.edu uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry

Hmmm...isn't steel harder to ignite than aluminum?  Isn't this why the Navy is
starting to steer away from aluminum superstructures?

I've heard that's its near impossible to put out an aluminum fire but I have
noidea how true this is...anyone who knows for sure?  The Stark seemed to have
survived a fire but the Sheffield didn't.

NT

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