Re: report: ISS minor debris strike

Pat Flannery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Tom Merkle wrote:
>
>>The Los Angeles, SSN 688, right here in Pearl Harbor, HI, from nov
>>2000 till two months ago.
>>
>God... this is the day.. when a Los Angeles class attack sub is 
>described as "old"...hell... man, didn't you ever have an Aurora model 
>of the Skipjack?

Pat, the LA is nearly 30 years old, for a submarine that's pretty long
in the tooth.  The youngest LA isn't even a decade old, that's one of
the longest submarine production runs we've ever had.

D.
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