<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>a battleship could ride on a light, fast narrow keel, carrying missiles such as vertical launch patriots, laser defensive  systems, drones, etc.  It wouldn't look like what we think of as a battleship.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><div><font size="4"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Such an expensive boondoggle would be of zero help in opening up the Strait of Hormuz.  Militarily it would be about as useful as that gold plated billion dollar ballroom.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>And we already have things that<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>can vertically launch missiles, they're called "submarines".</font><br><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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