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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Anti-Balistic Missiles Now
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Date: 14 Dec 90 00:26:56 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams)
>>>If not, how does a carrier battle group defend itself from incoming warheads?
>>It doesn't.  Nobody does.  Everybody has very abruptly woken up to the
>>fact that such a capability would be a good idea.
>
>Aircraft carriers have various "lines of defense" against anti-shipping
>missiles:

The original question was about ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles.
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