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The UK could never afford such a thing, so you're left with the US, a federated Europe on a militaristic spending spree, Russia wasting it's oil and gas money, China deciding it needs toys or the Japanese going crazy.
I meant a joint project.
Why Patriot, ever heard of Standard missiles & ESSM?
ESSM, maybe, but the idea was to stop extreme missile spam, something that would be very common with lower tech nations, or even China.
Either you played too much Red Alert, or you mean Iron Fist? Could help, but you'd need a king-sized version to stop ASMs & guided bombs.
It could be Iron Fist. I think I may have forgotten the name, but it is attached to things like Jeeps to detonate rockets and projectiles before they hit the Jeep itself. A "king-sized" version could prevent, say, damage to the bridge or areas protected on the outside, but not on the inside.
A big ship would be a perfect place for those, yes.
a what?
The plasma wall is essentially America's forcefield prototype, capable of taking overpressure and heat. If this is on the inside, lucky torpedo/anti-ship hits will not do as much internal damage.
I think it would be much less useful than on a tank, no thin, fragile APFSDS and fewer HEAT warheads to disturb. OTOH many missiles or bombs with thick casings and much momentum.
This was more for torpedo attacks.
Will be fragile stuff...
Most likely. However its as cheap as aluminum foil. Easily replaceable, pocket change compared to the ship itself.
Oh yes it would! The USN pays more than a billion for a DDG and a CVN is 5 billion. A battleship sized ship would cost at least 3 billion or so.(probably more, since the cost for DDG-1000 has risen to more than that per ship, all three of them.)
I actually think this will cost around 15, maybe even 20 billion upon thinking about it. It depends more on the costs of the "FUTUUUUURRRRE" defenses.