From: mikkelhaaheim@gmail.com   
      
   Le dimanche 4 décembre 2016 04:35:02 UTC+1, Rick Pikul/Chakat Firepaw a   
   écrit :   
   > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:49:26 -0800, Mikkel Haaheim wrote:   
   >    
   > > Le dimanche 16 octobre 2016 07:19:43 UTC+2, Rick Pikul/Chakat Firepaw a   
   > > écrit :   
   >    
   > >> "Was I to die this moment, ‘Want of Frigates’ would be found stamped   
   on   
   > >> my heart." -- Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson   
   > >>    
   > >> The sensor platforms we are talking about are to interplantary war what   
   > >> frigates were to Napoleonic naval war. (or radar stations and   
   > >> satellites are to modern war).   
   > >    
   > > You appear to have a misperception of what such platforms can actually   
   > > do.   
   >    
   > Nope, plus:  Non sequitur.   
   >    
   > That was a response to your claim that the combat platforms are    
   > "systematically considered more important."  Thus I responded with a    
   > relatively famous quote showing the claim to be false.   
   >    
      
   The quote does not show the claim to be false. Frigates are warships, fully   
   capable of projecting power. Even today, radar stations alone are useless. The   
   radar stations supply information to airbases and/or naval vessels, or other   
   assets, that are    
   capable of taking action. There is a strong precedent for the military   
   favouring to mount smaller platforms on more manoeuverable assets that can   
   actually pack in the punch.   
      
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