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To: combjelly who wrote (319978)	1/10/2007 4:04:07 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 1574005

I'm not sure we have anything that can intercept a sea-skimming anti-shipping missile - except perhaps the ships of our own Navy. It was one of these missiles that took out the British destroyer in the Falklands, but it was a smaller, air-launched cousin, the French Exocet. britains-smallwars.com I know we have radar-controlled, automated, last line of defence Vulcan cannons ON the ships to defend the ships, but that's all I'm aware of. I'm sure we have cool stuff I'm not aware of - maybe we'll find out. Or, maybe we'll find that Navys are as obsolete as battleships in the age of cheap, mobile anti-shipping missiles? How embarrassing would it be to lose a couple of carrier battle groups to Iran?