Ah, so inability to comprehend hypotheticals noted.
And if you think the acronym is inaccurate, demonstrate that it is not. It's not up to me to prove something is not what it says it is.
You need to work on that confusion problem of yours. I never used "mission sink" because the term...
You can't read can you? Do you understand what hypotheticals are? Do you think a missile capable penetrating into the vitals of a supercarrier can be stopped by the deck armor of an Iowa? And if it can, why do you think the bit over an inch less deck protection of an Alaska can't.
So, let's...
If there is someone fanatically intent on conflict leading to war, it will be British. Lincoln was willing to sacrifice anything and everything in the name of preserving the Union, and if he needs to bend over backwards to do it, he will. The British government at the time, on the other hand...
You know, I'm certainly not going to contest that the USA is going to quickly lose any sort of war against Britain while also fighting the Civil War, but I love how this is the exact same frame of thought that characterized our debate on the Venezuela crisis thread. Somehow, the war must be...
I have no clue how your thought processes function. If the nuke is necessary because the Russians have failed to push the Germans back, why exactly would this weaker Soviet Union be able to do a damn think if the Allied nuclear attack pushes the final division line further East? If the nuke is...
A single regiment of Backfires certainly would have sunk the entire USN if the USN had been stupid enough to build battleships and relied on armor to protect from ASMs. Thankfully, the USN wasn't idiotic enough to still think steel armor was effective protection against modern missiles, and...
I think those numbers are a bit high, but 1939 and 1940 in particular are inconsistent with the rest of your numbers. The invasion of the Soviet Union was a core part of Nazi ideology and only the exceedingly unlikely circumstance of Hitler just dropping dead and being replaced by someone sane...
You shouldn't ask that. A search would inevitably turn up all your ridiculous claims and obvious lies, and all the instances where you were caught red handed.
You'd be far better off actually presenting sources, either as scans or in online formats. With your history, you really can't expect...
Indeed, I concede that the terminal velocity of the Kh-22 is Mach 2.5. That of the followup Kh-32 is uncertain, but known to be higher.
The terminal velocity of the shaped charge warhead doesn't matter with regards to armor penetration. Not that a 70in shaped charge would even notice a foot...
You are demonstrating quite a lack of technical understanding of the subject of how shaped charges work. Nobody is going to shoot a 16in shell at a carrier, or shorebombardment platform. Against a shaped charge on the other hand, a dozen bulkheads, each 1 in think with a few feet of space...
Yes, something like 6x the diameter of the shaped charge. You know that a Harpoon has a 13in diameter warhead right? Designing a missile warhead for a light ASM that would get through the Iowa's armor is easy as hell compared to refitting the Iowa.
And of course, the big Soviet shipkillers...
You aren't reading are you? That's exactly my point. Missiles not intended to go through armor will do bugger all to penetrate the Iowa's belt, but it will also do bugger all at penetrating the Alaska's belt. A solid hit will mission kill both ships however, by destroying radars, knocking out...
It's odd really. Sometimes, you are a halfway decent poster, whose posts are generally obvious, but at least true. Then there are the times when you start posting complete nonsense that would set Bard to shame, and curiously, both grammar and spelling goes down the tubes at the same time...
Against any missile designed to punch through armor, Iowa's might as well not be there. Against any designed to kill unarmored aluminum hulled modern ships, the Alaska's armor would do near as well.
My point is that the Iowa's TDS is irrelevant. Are you contesting this?
Are you suggesting...
Instead, they are designed to gut supercarriers twice the size with Kevlar over the vitals. Either that, or they are designed to penetrate targets with no armor at all. Not to mention with the dependence of modern warships on impossible to armor sensors and shock sensitive electronics, mission...