View Single Post
  #89  
Old 04-07-2012, 10:26 PM
Targan's Avatar
Targan Targan is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 3,735
Default

Panther Al, raketenjagdpanzer, Olefin - these ideas all have merit. Just to clarify a few things for my own understanding - say we have the Tarawa as the flagship of the Bremerhaven to Middle East Omega part of the Omega fleet, when she gets to the eastern end of the Mediterranean are she and her escorts able to traverse the Suez Canal? If so, we can wrap up many of these ideas in a nice, neat package.

There was an interesting discussion here a year or more ago about MilGov naval and merchant marine assets using Australian ports during long Pacific and Indian Ocean transits. If the Tarawa was able to take Omega evacuees directly to Saudi or Iran she would certainly then be able to take on fuel and undergo maintenance before travelling on to Australia, Korea and Japan. I guess then she'd be taking the troops to a west coast MilGov enclave. But it would work well, and she'd make a great addition to the seaborne lifeline between the CONUS and the RDF.
__________________
"It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli
Reply With Quote