Thread: High-Tech ‘Batman’ Ship in Florida Drug Raid
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Default High-Tech ‘Batman’ Ship in Florida Drug Raid
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:39:29 -0500, wrote:

The old coasie fire control systems (WWII surplus stuff) were not
really up to shooting down a high performance fighter but they were
plenty good enough to hit just about any surface target out to 15,000
yards or so.

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Even a target that's moving at 40 to 50 knots? We have a Furuno
tracking RADAR on our trawler that would be the envy of any WWII ship
but it has difficulty with targets moving that fast.

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