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Old February 14th 08, 02:35 PM posted to sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military.naval
Fred J. McCall
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Clark wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote in
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: Clark wrote:
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::"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
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:: In message , Clark
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::On 09 Feb 2008, you wrote in rec.aviation.military.naval:
:: In message , Clark
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::Show me a VLS system other than submarine that isn't used with Aegis.
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:: GWS26 Sea Wolf. PAAMS (Sylver launchers plus ASTER missiles). SA-N-6 and
:: SA-N-9, for the Russians. At least one Chinese system whose designation
:: I can't recall offhand. Barak, for Israeli kit. Vertically Launched Sea
:: Sparrow.
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:: There may be more but that's a starting point. Plenty of users like
:: vertical launch without ever getting near AEGIS.
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::In other words, for the point of this exchange there aren't any. We were
::typing about Standard missiles.
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:: No, you weren't - unless you can show me a submarine firing Standards...
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::What? All I have mentioned is Standards. I specifically excluded submarine
::VLS. Are you having a bad day?
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: And why would you do that if you were only referring to Standards,
: which any fool knows are not fired from submarines?
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:Because I know that you are a fool.

And yet you're the one saying all the egregiously stupid things.

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:: Even letting that pass, turn your eyes to the Canadian Tribal-class
:: destroyers, and their Mark 41 VLS systems, the Standard missiles
:: therein, and their remarkable lack of AEGIS. Or the Australian Adelaides
:: after their VLS modification, ditto. Or the German Sachsens....
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:: Plenty of VLS systems launching Standard that still have no AEGIS
:: involved on the ship.
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::And none of them US. Fine. There are other non-US Standard VLS systems
::without Aegis. Are there are any US VLS systems without Aegis?
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: Yes. I already told you that.
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:No you didn't. You went off on tangents.

Yes, I did. Your inability to read is YOUR problem.

And your problem is obvious...


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