Quote: Duane Peters wrote:
Point of information: The Stingray isn't a Ohio-class nuclear missile
boat; she's a Seawolf-class nuclear attack boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawolf_class_submarine
She's armed with SCLMs, submarine-launched cruise missiles, which can be launched from a standard Mk21 torpedo tube, not SLBMs, submarine-launched
ballistic missiles.
Why? Because SLCMs don't have to be modded much to work in outer space, and are already self-guided. SLBMs, on the other hand, would have frightened the
entire 'Danelaw into hunting her down, no matter the cost.
I think that point is moot. It's a nuclear boat. The Navy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, and pretty much every Mover, Shaker, and Bigwig
in the Government of the United States would sit up and take notice the minute someone walked off with one of their boats. So, unless we want Fenspace to deal
with the United States declaring them a rogue state and making noises about going to war, I suggest that we leave any military hardware well within the hands
of the military. The 'waved submarine already mentioned (name escapes me) is still under command of Navy crew who are still following orders, and the
Blackbirds are decommissioned shells filled with new tech by their new owners (museum pieces are generally gutted of things that might even marginally be
considered classified before being put out where the public can see them). Leave current miltech alone. It's not going to happen.
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