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FBaggins

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4. nope

Reply to Atman (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 14, 2013, 08:50 AM

Sep 2013

it's because the old ones don't last forever.

The better question to ask is whether we're paying many billions to make the same mistake that the Navy has made for centuries... planning to fight the last war when the next is very different.

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