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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: USS Iowa explosion
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Date: 28 Apr 89 03:23:46 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)

In article <5979@cbnews.ATT.COM> nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) writes:
>I would have thought that an Iowa class battle ship would have survived
>only a few more hours longer than the Belgrano. Capital ships without
>their protecting screen of destroyers and frigates are sitting
>ducks.

The Iowas, at least, carry ASW helicopters that can be used to help
screen the BB from submarines; the Belgrano had nothing -- a situation
where they might as well have painted "SINK ME" on the sides of the
hull.


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