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** This assumes the Nimitz was in the right position for it's planes to catch up to the missiles, rather than simple launch a strike at the Missouri.

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** This assumes the Nimitz was in the right position for it's planes to catch up to the missiles, rather than the much more simple task to launch a strike at the Missouri.
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** This assumes the Nimitz was in the right position for it's planes to catch up to the missiles, rather than simple launch a strike at the Missouri.
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*** Everyone thought Stranix sank the sub.
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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet? If ''Nimitz''[='=] aircraft were within striking range of ''Missouri'', F-14s that same could easily have intercepted the Tomahawks.

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* If the North Korean sub was that close to the Missouri, the main gun should have been depressed rather than elevated, but what ''are'' the odds that you can successfully snipe a moving target that small with a 16"/50 caliber gun, anyway? Or is that just Gun Porn?

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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet? If ''Nimitz''[='=] ''Nimitz''[='s=] aircraft were within striking range of ''Missouri'', F-14s that from the same could easily have intercepted the Tomahawks.

'''Artistic License - Large Naval Boomsticks:'''
* If the North Korean sub was that close to the Missouri, ''Missouri'', the main gun should have been depressed rather than elevated, but what ''are'' the odds that you can successfully snipe a moving target that small with a 16"/50 caliber gun, anyway? Or is that just Gun Porn?



** It's probable that Missouri's guns were never intended to engage a target that close, but even when first built the ship was fitted with a fire control system that was capable of engaging moving targets.

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** It's probable that Missouri's ''Missouri'''s guns were never intended to engage a target that close, but even when first built the ship was fitted with a fire control system that was capable of engaging moving targets.
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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet? If ''Nimitz' aircraft were within striking range of ''Missouri'', F-14s that same could easily have intercepted the Tomahawks.

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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet? If ''Nimitz' ''Nimitz''[='=] aircraft were within striking range of ''Missouri'', F-14s that same could easily have intercepted the Tomahawks.
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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet?

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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet?
Hornet? If ''Nimitz' aircraft were within striking range of ''Missouri'', F-14s that same could easily have intercepted the Tomahawks.
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* Pearl Harbor is (and was) home to more assets than most nations have in their entire military, and the only aircraft the Navy (in the movie) could send to intercept the Tomahawks was a single F/A-18C Hornet?
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** Speaking of the North Korean sub, where exactly did Strannix have that thing hidden after he hijacked it, anyway? Wouldn't somebody have noticed a rogue submarine chugging around?

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** Speaking of the North Korean sub, where exactly did Strannix have that thing hidden after he hijacked it, anyway? Wouldn't somebody have noticed a rogue submarine chugging around?around?
** It's probable that Missouri's guns were never intended to engage a target that close, but even when first built the ship was fitted with a fire control system that was capable of engaging moving targets.
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* If the North Korean sub was that close to the Missouri, the main gun should have been depressed rather than elevated, but what ''are'' the odds that you can successfully snipe a moving target that small with a 16"/50 caliber gun, anyway? Or is that just Gun Porn?

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* If the North Korean sub was that close to the Missouri, the main gun should have been depressed rather than elevated, but what ''are'' the odds that you can successfully snipe a moving target that small with a 16"/50 caliber gun, anyway? Or is that just Gun Porn?Porn?
** Speaking of the North Korean sub, where exactly did Strannix have that thing hidden after he hijacked it, anyway? Wouldn't somebody have noticed a rogue submarine chugging around?
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* Why is a US Army CH-47 on the Missouri's flight deck?
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'''Artistic License - Flying Military Thingies:'''
*Why is a US Army CH-47 on the Missouri's flight deck?

'''Artistic License - Large Naval Boomsticks:'''
*If the North Korean sub was that close to the Missouri, the main gun should have been depressed rather than elevated, but what ''are'' the odds that you can successfully snipe a moving target that small with a 16"/50 caliber gun, anyway? Or is that just Gun Porn?

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