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Old 2012-11-29, 05:02   Link #24864
Jinto
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart View Post
Anything bigger than an LST (maybe medium destroyers like the Arlegih Burke class which has more armor than conventional destoyers) would simply be "marooned" because they can't carry the heavier torpedoes which are often used to make clean kills out of ships and hole carriers.
That is not entirely correct. There exist heavy weight torpedoes that can unikill everything in size below an air craft carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DM2A4

And those are typically stationed on modern diesel electric (AIP) subs.
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