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Old 09-17-2012, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Webstral View Post
It's fascinating how the Belgian Navy appears purpose-built for mine warfare. There's good sense to it, of course. Keeping the sea lanes to the ports of northwestern Europe open would have been of paramount importance.
I noticed the same thing. It's like they are NATOs minesweeper force. From an economic point of view it probably makes sense. They aren't a big country and they can make the most of their budgets using less expensive ships.
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