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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (438072)	8/4/2003 2:43:59 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Naval ships have an air cover screen....say for instance a plane was trying to get close enough to launch an Exocet antiship missile....those missiles have a range of about 100 miles...the task force commander would establish a screen of air cover at about 150 miles to make sure that any launch could not reach the ship, IOW, the offending plane would be shot out of the sky beyond the effective range of the hostile munition. I'm not Navy so my figures and procedures may not totally match up...but that's how air cover works.... JLA