Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:31:37 -0700
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>From: Warren Bruhn
>Subject: Re: “monitor”
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> >Your adherence to armor is traditional, …
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>Hey, don’t pin the armor thing on me! I never said anything in support of
>armor. In my description of a fantasy monitor, I specifically said that the
>ship should not be armored. Other people have been writing about >armor, not me.
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>I can’t disagree with any of the rest of what you said. Though I would not
>be surprised if we eventually had a 155mm calibre for ship guns. That idea
>is somebody else’s baby though. Let them defend the idea.
>
>Now, I will get back to the age of black powder where I belong. Just
>thinking about modern naval combat, with nukes, nasty chemicals that get in
>through exposed skin, and biological agents that incapacitate and lead to a
>slow and painful death gives me the shakes. Somehow, having my arm slashed
>off by a cutlass while a bit of grapeshot takes off half my face seems more
>pleasant.
>
>Warren Bruhn

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