[meatloaf]

“The firing stopped.” What a surprise!

I realize the Iowa class battleships are dinosaurs. I wonder how they would stand up to today's anti-ship missiles. The little information I found on the DDG-23 Richard E. Byrd's sinking after the Greek Navy stripped her surprised me. The ship seemed to take a lot of missiles before sinking.

[tanknetter]

I wonder how they would stand up to today's anti-ship missiles.

The criteria isn't so much "sinking" as it is being rendered combat ineffective. An Iowa can take as much punishment, perhaps even more, than a current-day CVN ... but if she ends up becoming a missile sponge it's very much game-over.

A few years back I had a good back and forth with a couple USN SWOs I know on whether a Perry-class FFG (back when they still had their one-armed-bandits and could fire SM1s and Harpoons) with a standard loadout (8 Harpoons, the rest SM1s) could take down the Bismark. Answer was an absolute "yes".