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From: plague@milton.u.washington.edu (Jack Brown)
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Subject: Re: battleships
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Date: 15 Feb 91 06:38:34 GMT
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From: plague@milton.u.washington.edu (Jack Brown)

>
>today I read that the Missouri is back.  Is there some feature of
>battleships that limits the number that can be fired or limits the
>time the battleship can spend in the place from which it fires?

Not particularly.  It's just that they don't _need_ to fire very many rounds.
It doesn't take very many Volkswagen Beetle sized shells to mess up whatever
you're shooting at.

Jack Brown
aka plague@milton.u.washington.edu