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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aircraft carrier discussion
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Date: 24 Jan 89 02:52:11 GMT
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From:	Mark Moraes <moraes@csri.toronto.edu>

Sinking an aircraft carrier may not be necessary to neutralize it's
capability - destroying the catapults at the front could keep it out of
action for quite a while (if the damage was repairable)

If the E-2s require the catapults as well (don't think so, but I'm not
sure) then the effective protection to the battle group would also be
decreased significantly.