[Wombat101]

When you fire rockets, or guns, on a ship the ship tends to roll, making it difficult to get follow-on rounds on target. Unfortunately, there is no way, at the present, to completly solve this problem. Stabilizers and achoring might work, but it's not a certainty. There wa salso the problem of setting fire to the launching platform.

Modern ship-launched missiles have a booster rocket which merely flings the projectile to a safe distance before the main rocket engine ignites. Launching MLRS-type rockets from a boat is a recipe for serious ship-board-fires.

[fireforeffect]

As I said, its a concept.

We have problems with burning foliage too.

As a shore bombardment system all firing could be done over the sides, with the back blast going over the other side. No teak decks obviously.

If we can stabilize a tank gun, waves should not be a problem. With guided munitions, you only have to get the cargo projectile close.