Exactly! how are these ships supposed to survive attack? I remember a couple of years ago when a similar event happened with another super new, super modern ship, its bow started burning and they could not stop it.
How come they are using aluminum or other metals for the ship? What about steel?. The older aircraft carriers had a 3" steel deck. Just like the movie 'Battleship' I would rather fight with a museum ship retrofitted with new cannons rather than some of the new BS ship designs.
It’s a gator it’s designed to get in fairly shallow water to launch Marines from its wet deep V bay. The entire ship is easier to burn than a normal carrier because it can’t be completely sealed off due to the design. It has a large open area that extends up from water line in the rear to hangar deck (01 level) and can’t be closed off.
The Royal Navy found out the hard way in the Falklands what happens to aluminum superstructures when they get hit by a missile. It wasn’t pretty and cost them a couple of destroyers or frigates.
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Modern anti-ship missiles render WW2 style armor useless or worse - a hit from a modern ship killer missile to heavy armor will go through the armor *and* convert the armor into secondary projectile fragments causing far more damage.
Put it to you this way - there are modern man-portable antitank missiles on the world market that can go through **880mm or 31 inches** of rolled homogenous steel armor plate. That is more armor than any WW2 combatant ever dreamed of mounting, and capital ship anti shipping missiles are the same thing only much larger and much worse news for their targets. Armor beyond the ability to shrug off small arms or light auto cannon fire is pretty much pointless these days.