My bad - I didn't realize that you were using "powerful" in the military/industrial sense. It makes more sense now especially in the light of the sub attack theory.
Since I've managed to threadjack this thread all to hell and gone with my Soviet obsession, I'll back out now with apologies until someone puts us back on topic.
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