Iowas cost as much as a Arleigh Burke-class destroyer cost to build once you factor in inflation.
Why destroy a historical ship, when the ships were morale black holes when they were reactivated?
We have better steel that's stronger and lighter than what Granpa's generation used.
Building New Seawolves make more sense than a Iowa's replacement.
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Underrated post.
You know that USN ships would only reverse into cargo ships if you mounted a purpose built ram on the prow. If you added a ramming blade to the stern then they'd somehow manage to get the ship moving sideways when they collided with civilian vessels.
wow how pleb can you get
Link pls? i didn't hear about the scramjet projectile having already been tested, i thought it was a theory thing only. Did the tests mention any feasibility for anti-air usage, or does it just move too fast?
Another thought is to go the full meme and drop a nuclear reactor and railguns on it, but that kinda defeats the purpose of bringing back the Iowa.
MUH
This needs to become a thing.
Nice dubs, that would at least slow them down ridiculously, which could make the collisions less damaging …
It would be better if more boring to simply make arsenal ships a thing and have small, stupid fast ships with target designation and a rack or two of their own missiles, asroc and a gun and CIWS.