an Iowa Class Battleship fires its 16 inch guns

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[TheKaliner]

Winning

[jackets298]

@AmericanThunder yes, the damage of armor penetration

[LegoRobot17]

I'M ON A BOAT!

[Fun4uitstrue]

Damn birds can't shit on my ship again.

[AmericanThunder]

For those saying that the newest sea-skimming anti-ship missiles(Russian Sunburn missile?) would easily sink an Iowa, I will mention one point. A typical battleship armor scheme is designed to defeat the ship's own guns. A 16" gun shell travels at roughly 2000 mph, and carries 750 lbs of explosive behind a hardened penetrator. The new sunburn anti-ship missile, carries 750lbs of explosive, travels at 1400 mph. The ship was built to withstand such a thing. Am I missing something here?

[AmericanThunder]

@EntropicMisanthropic The same principal holds true for gun shells; HE shells are designed to destroy soft targets, and AP shells are designed to destroy hard targets. Same thing with anti-personnel weapons; Hollow point bullets work great against guys wearing t-shirts, and full metal jacketed bullets work best against guys wearing armor vests.

[AmericanThunder]

@EntropicMisanthropic So you're saying that even though there are no battleships left in service anywhere on Earth, the russians and chinese are still designing and building missiles to defeat battleship armor? I would think modern missile designers would design missiles to sink modern warships. A missile designed to sink soft targets (carriers) is a different design than a missile designed to sink hard targets(battleships)

[Whaty80]

KABOOOOOMMM!!!!!

[310eraser]

@EntropicMisanthropic

Super carriers don't have rolled homogeneous steel armor. While it wouldn't be fool proof, a battleship is much more able to take damage than a carrier (due to the thickness of internal bulkheads).

We have plenty of ability to down supersonic anti-ship missiles:

RIM-174 Standard ERAM

RIM-161 Standard Missile 3

RIM-162 ESSM

Phalanx CIWS

RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile

[EntropicMisanthropic]

@EntropicMisanthropic er, I should say the Iowas were intentionally left to rust in order to break the power of the battleship admirals while still also humoring the Marines, who were the ones who really needed the Iowas the most for amphib assaults. The powder was left to degenerate in the hot sun on tarped barges until it eventually caused a 16 inch gun to blow up, and then the Navy said "Oops, seems they're just too unsafe and too much trouble to keep around!". Worked out perfectly for them.