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Minesweeping by chaff

Thu, 15 May 2003 12:08

mazda

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Does anybody else out there consider the method of sweeping mines by chucking lots of small ships at them a little odd ?

Ok. Everyone does it, but do you think it is a sensible mechanism for removing mines, or perhaps a sensible idea, but the sums aren't quite right ?
Was it intended by the designers or did they just get their sums wrong ?

Consider this !

Mines are space at 1 per l.y. squared.
Now this is a massive area.
A ship (say maximum size 1000m in length) that detonates one mine would only really detonate one mine.

So perhaps it's just the reduction in the minefield size after a hit that is wrong ?

M

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		Minesweeping by chaff By: mazda on Thu, 15 May 2003 12:08
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