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Yep, needs a deck gun or two.
^so you're saying we'll have a railgun and an MLRS on deck? SWEEET......:D
....and an underwater launch bay for the sharks with laser beams.....
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
Here is one good article about the Achushnet and where she has served. The Pendleton disaster is not well known outside of the Coast Guard but a few legends were made that day. (Google BM1 Bernie Webber to learn more about that)http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/remembering-uscgc-acushnet/
The first beam suppresses the charge on the electron. The second beam suppresses the charge of the proton...
The third beam gets really confused trying to figure out what to do with the neutron.
Uh...wouldn't that be USCGC Eagle, by eight years? (Or by four months if you only count from the US commissioning.)
If the Eagle is in service as opposed to commissioned it wouldn't be the oldest cutter.
Rumor has it the person who won the bid, at about $600,000, doesn't have the money for fuel to take it to where ever he was planning on taking it.