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From: tkogoma%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Gym Z. Quirk)
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Subject: Re: Stealth boats(?)
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Date: 14 Mar 91 03:38:26 GMT
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From: tkogoma%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Gym Z. Quirk)
In article <1991Mar12.233406.1012@cbnews.att.com> Are Leif Garn}sjordet <areg@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>Have anybody thought about stealth boats ? We were having a few beers
>one night and discussed the possibility of fast patrolboats armed
>with exocet/harpoon/pingvin rockets.
>
>Can someone imagine how much havoc some stealth boats could do to one
>of the large carrier-groups.

Well, I always thought that a successfully infiltrating Improved Los
Angeles class SSN could do wonders to a large task force.  8+ Tomohawk
TASMs, plus 3 or 4 harpoons or Mk48 torps.  Not a nice thing to wake
to.

Does anybody know how the radar signature of a Pegassus class PHM
compares with a small FF?  As I recall, they are armed with 4 (or 8?)
harpoons in quad launchers...

Ov course the problem with surface vessels is that you still can't
defeat the Mk. I eyeball sensor system except during overcast/night.
Then you have to worry about Night vision gear...