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From: msmiller@gonzoville.East.Sun.COM (Mark Miller - OpenWindows Contractor)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: USN CVs wont fit in Arabian Gulf?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 03:37:15 GMT
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From: msmiller@gonzoville.East.Sun.COM (Mark Miller - OpenWindows Contractor)
I think that with the steam catapults now in use our carriers can
launch their planes downwind.

The big problem I see with putting our carrier groups in the gulf
is that it becomes very easy to locate them. There's only one axis
for travel, and much of it is in view of land. The carrier force
would need strong round-the-clock CAP as long as they were in the
gulf.

My hunch would be that if things got out of hand, the two USN
carriers near the gulf would steam in at night, send attack sorties 
out during daylight hours, and then retire back to the Indian Ocean
that night. To keep them in the gulf overnight and allow Iraq to
prepare a dawn attack is really pushing it.

	-MSM

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