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From: drn@pinet.aip.org (donald_newcomb)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SSN's in the Gulf?
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Date: 19 Jan 91 04:30:01 GMT
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From: drn@pinet.aip.org (donald_newcomb)
>From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith)
>(for sci.military)
>Is there any word (speculation, rumor) about the deployment of
>U.S. SSN's in the Persian Gulf.  What is SOP for a task force
>in this tactical situation?
>-Bill

A cursory glance at any chart of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf will
reveil that the maximum depth is about 80m. The average depth is
about 50m. The Arabian (west) half is mostly less than 25m. The 
whole place is littered with oil platforms, well heads and pipe
lines. With surface trafic taking up the first 20m, or so, _I_
wouldn't want to be in a sub in the Gulf.


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