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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Cost Reduction and the Nuclear Deterence
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Date: 21 Feb 90 02:31:35 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
In article <14126@cbnews.ATT.COM> I wrote:
>... I'd be very surprised if 50% is the on-station percentage;
>the Brits find it difficult to maintain 33% (one sub on station at all times
>out of a total fleet of three)...

Oops, my mistake.  The number they find difficult to maintain is 25%,
i.e. one on station out of a fleet of *four*, not three.  (The fleet
was meant to be five, which would have worked all right, but the
politicians killed the fifth sub and said "do the full job anyway".)

                                    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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