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Addressing you and some other grandchild comments: This is why we have a navy, not to mention the supporting apparatus of land-, sea-, and space-based monitori
by clarkmoody 12y ago
Addressing you and some other grandchild comments:
This is why we have a navy, not to mention the supporting apparatus of land-, sea-, and space-based monitoring of the air and seas.
Unless this thing is placed under a heavily-trafficked air route, attacks from non-state groups are unlikely to succeed, as the divergent flight-path of a commercial airliner will set off alarms.
And state actors would be declaring war by attacking this thing.
- demallien 12y agohttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing Divers attaching charges to the hull would be another low-tech way to take a vessel like this down. Low tech mines would probably do a pretty good job too.
- schwap 12y agoThat was at port, though. This ship is planned to spend 25 years at sea. Certainly a ship carrying divers would have to get close enough so as to be obvious.
- satori99 12y agoThis thing will be permantently moored in a part of the planet reknowned for the ferocity of the cyclones it gets each season. Mother Nature will be attacking it too, and the designers know it. So it would probably have to be big mine.
- vacri 12y agoAnd state actors would be declaring war by attacking this thing. France didn't declare war on New Zealand with the Rainbow Warrior bombing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior