In message , Scott Ferrin
writes
Same here. Back when I was first getting interested in ships. . .well
compared to a Kara the Belknap class looked pretty sorry.

Yeah, but I know which I want to be on when the shooting starts.

One reason the USSR put so many weapons on its ships... was that it
improved the chances that _something_ would work when the war broke out.
The closer you got, the less appealing those USSR ships looked.

A colleague remembers how badly the Kuznetsov _stank_ while passing
downwind of her. Ships whose weapon mounts are fouled by lines of drying
fish, are not likely to generate great combat power.

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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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