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From: terryr@ogicse.ogi.edu (Terry Rooker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: How to assault a tanker
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.030532.421@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 03:05:32 GMT
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From: terryr@ogicse.ogi.edu (Terry Rooker)
In article <1990Aug28.042834.29477@cbnews.att.com> jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
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>From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
>So, how do you stop a Very Large Crude Carrier from running a naval
>blockade without setting it on fire or, worse, breaching the hull,
>which could make the Exxon Valdez accident look like a Coppertone spill 
>in a hot tub?  
>
The standard technique regularly used with success by the Coast Guard
is to use MG fire at the stern of the vessel to disable the steering
gear.  The hull of a ship is not thick, so heavy ordnance is not
required.  This type of mission, disabling a larger ship, is also one
of the reasons the deck-mounted 81mm mortar was developed.  It gave
the patrol boats a large caliber weapon, and that had a recoil the
deck could handle.  Generally, the cargo is well removed from the
stern of the ship so the danger of breaching storage tanks is small.  

-- 
Terry Rooker
terryr@cse.ogi.edu