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From: akt@mcnc.UUCP (Amit Thakur)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: USN Carrier collides with Russian sub
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Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 00:28:34 EST
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in a recent news article, i read that u.s. reconaissance pilots in
honduras who overfly el salvador sometimes take along rocks to
drop on guerrillas in el salvador.  a quotation from one of the
pilots went something like: "we're just letting them know that if
we can hit them with rocks, we can hit them with other things as well."

could the russians be trying to convey the message "we can torpedo
your carriers any time we want?" (sort of a surface version of 
"chicken" that u.s. and russian pilots engage in from time to time.)

of course, carriers are the mainstay of our naval defenses, so
having the (perceived) ability to sink a carrier is a real victory
from the point of psychological warfare.

akt at ...decvax!mcnc!akt