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Default Military Ships (was Your Typical Beneteau!)


On 16-Aug-2009, cavelamb wrote:

wrote:
That was the accuracy back in WWII. In Beirut they were hitting houses.
But the main thing is it is very hard to sink a battleship. Most
antiship
missiles today will not penetrate there thick hide.



They don't have to penetrate the hull to disable the ship.


And can you explain how that might work?