On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 18:40:30 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"R2D2" wrote in message news:27et5e9cd55fqlmpdshvkqg56fts8o2p0i@4ax.com...
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>> A lucky hit on the catapults or arrestor gear and it's off to the shipyard
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>As if luck can always be relied upon...
You can't *rely* on it, but you have to plan for it. Because shit
happens when you least expect it.
The Bismarck was crippled by a single torpedo hit in the only place
where it could work, the rudder. Luck.
In Midway, the unescorted US dive bombers, that had been wondering
around half-lost, arrived over the IJN carriers just as all IJN
fighters were at sea level, moping up the poor torpedo bombers. Luck.
The Hood took ONE hit in the wron place and boom. Luck.
And how many people have been saved because of a faulty detonator in
the bomb that just hit their trench/building?
It's called "worst case scenario" or "Murphy's law"; you have to plan
to suffer it.
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