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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Obsolescence of the Surface Fleet
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Date: 1 Apr 91 22:36:57 GMT
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From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)

kinney@wku.edu (Mark Kinney) writes:
>	In a world conquest game a friend of mine ran once, the following
>scenario happened: Country X needed to move stuff through the Red Sea. Country
>Y mined the Red Sea. Country X proceded to fill several supertankers with
>styrofoam and send them into the Red Sea before his fleet. The theory was that
>the styrofoam would keep the ship afloat despite mine detonations, and would

And the propellor and rudder are unprotected.