Posted on 12/17/2014 7:42:05 AM PST by C19fan
These platforms are still perfectly effective. The nut cases claiming that aeroplanes can sink them should be locked up. They’re even trying to land the things on ships, f’Petessake!
Such ships were never intended to join the battle line itself and shoot it out with enemy battleships. Of course, the Admirals were unable to resist the temptation of adding their big guns to the line and, frankly, gambled that the added firepower outweighed the risk.
Sometimes the gamble was understood by all, as in the case of the Royal Navy's maximum effort against the Bismarck. In other cases, the battlecruiser captains had to be silently cursing their commanders.
Fixed it for you. At least for US ships.
i know today some ships have aluminum. i wasnt certain all of them do for their skins. i guess i was thinking more of the wwii large’ships’that were pretty much all steel, no’wood decks.
Needless to say, they cannot take hits at all. Why I always skoff at the idea of taking out Mach 2+ missiles with CIWS: the fragments would be like a shotgun at close range.
The battlecruiser’s thinner deck armour was succeptible to plunging fire (long range parabolic tranjectory) which is typical for vessels equipped with larger caliber guns.
Hood was most likely struck in the rear magazine when long range fire from Bismark penetrated its thinner deck armour.
This thread needs reference to the individual responsible for much of what happened in that era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,[3] GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 184110 July 1920) was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.
Drones can provide every ship with a cheap counter to those missiles.
Drones can provide every ship with it’s own ‘air cover’ and ‘underwater cover’.
Drones are today’s revolution in naval warfare.
The battleship would make a great drone warfare platform.
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