AussieReaper wrote:
..teddy..jimmy wrote:
...what does an ambulance have to do with anything?
A minesweeper is obviously built with an engine similar to other warships. Ambulances and tanks are probably strikingly similar.
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Quite simple actually.
A minesweeper doesn't kill people. It saves lives. It removes mines.
A warship does kill people.
With me so far?
An ambulance doesn't kill people. It saves lives. It removes shrapnel from wounds.
A tank kills people.
You wouldn't call an ambulance a tank. Why call a minesweeper a warship, because it has the same engine?
Yeah, that's really scary. A fast moving mine sweeper is going to invade.
"Oh shit, we've spent our entire defence budget on mines! We surrender!"
edit: tl;dr diaf
A warship doesn't necessarily have to kill people...
A minesweeper in a column of warships heading to war is still a warship. It's been deployed to help in war.
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look at the first sentence here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(ship)
more....
wiki wrote:
The modern minesweeper is designed to reduce the chances of it detonating mines itself; it is soundproofed to reduce its acoustic signature and often constructed using wood, glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) or non-ferrous metal, or is degaussed to reduce its magnetic signature.
look at all that equipment...do ships have that? I bet warships do

Minesweeper have guns...ambulance have guns?
A MINESWEEPER IS A WARSHIP
uzique wrote:
With the same logic though, even buying a warship would be retarded, because all of the badass components would be taken out or disabled in the demilitarization... so technically you'd just be buying a super-heavy armour-plated hulk of fuel guzzling crapness. What's the point in having big guns and cannons if you can't even fire off blanks to scare the nearby small islands?
I personally think it would be awesome sailing around in a ship that sleeps 40 and looks like a warship.
EDIT: Aircraft carriers don't usually kill...the aircraft on them do. Is an aircraft carrier a warship?
Last edited by ..teddy..jimmy (2009-04-23 07:53:53)