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To: rednesss

A CIWS installation is 7 tons by itself, not including ammo. Add to that the tons and tons of scaffolding and decking you’d need to install one on the side of a carrier hull... and then realize that a CIWS cannot shoot straight up. So you stick a bunch of them on a carrier and now have a top heavy carrier that’s still vulnerable to plunging fire and will roll over in a stiff breeze.


44 posted on 03/23/2023 11:53:01 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

“A CIWS installation is 7 tons by itself”

1/5 the weight of an F-35


54 posted on 03/23/2023 12:06:21 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Spktyr
A CIWS installation is 7 tons by itself, not including ammo

A carrier is over 100,000 tons. Installing 100 CIWS would STILL be less than 1% of the carrier's displacement.

What's your point?

123 posted on 03/23/2023 5:10:26 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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