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RE: starship-design: Aircraft Carriers
Right - the only reason subs don't carry support fleets is for military
purposes - they'd defeat the purpose of being stealthy if a bunch of surface
vessels followed them around. But a sub is much more akin to the kind of
craft we're talking about. So imagine a sub as large as an aircraft carrier
- maybe a research sub with a fleet of support vessels.
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> From: L. Parker[SMTP:lparker@cacaphony.net]
> Reply To: L. Parker
> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 1998 2:05 PM
> To: 'Kelly St'
> Cc: 'LIT Starship Design Group'
> Subject: starship-design: Aircraft Carriers
>
> Kelly,
>
> > Subs don't carry fleets of support vehicles. So a carrier
> > might be a closer
> > analogy.
>
> For the most part, I do prefer to use Aircraft Carriers for comparison
> purposes. Occasionally, however, a different one is preferred. For MTBR
> purposes, a sub works better. The amount and type of maintenance a subs
> crew
> can and does perform is more in keeping with our needs - except we need
> those figures for a vehicle as large as an aircraft carrier...
>
> Lee
>