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To: LindyBill who wrote (356657)3/30/2010 1:12:37 PM
From: robert a belfer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793964
 
<They are fine against a second rate country, but in trouble against a first rate one. Over the decades, every time we had a ME war flareup, we moved the Carriers away from the Eastern Med. Didn't want to be in range of Soviet missiles.>

Concur. CIWS did not keep the USS Stark from getting hit.