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From: black@cfm.brown.edu (Joseph Kelly Black Gotlieb's student)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Obsolescence of the Surface Fleet
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Date: 4 Apr 91 19:47:41 GMT
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From: black@cfm.brown.edu (Joseph Kelly Black Gotlieb's student)

>kinney@wku.edu (Mark Kinney) writes:
>>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,

Wow!  This sounds really expensive (as well as flammable)!
Imagine all those styrofoam peanuts in the Red Sea :-)
How much petrol does it take to make styrofoam?  Could cost more than
it's worth.

	[Styrofoam's cheaper per cubic meter than oil, I'm pretty
	sure! --CDR]

Kel