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To: arthurus

Or, put another way:

The Iowa class battleships had belt armor steel of 12.1 inches thickness. The turret faces are 19.5 inches in two layers.

The current squad-packable (technically man-portable), tripod launched Kornet antitank missile that’s widely available on the world arms market can penetrate ***43 INCHES*** of rolled homogenous steel armor. With a 10lb warhead.

The Granit has a similar warhead, scaled up to **1650**lbs.

Modern capital ship and antishipping missiles make any currently practical level of armor on a ship useless in a peer fight - *if* they hit.


73 posted on 02/17/2020 5:16:49 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Antiship missiles are not always met in an engagement.Sometimes it can be a small boat with a package or a machine gun on the shore. Those ‘littorals” can be swiss cheese pretty easily, I think.


74 posted on 02/17/2020 12:57:22 PM PST by arthurus (0b)
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