Iowa was designed for a slightly different purpose than the traditional use of super dreadnoughts.
Given a lot of what has been documented on battleships and discussed in texts such as Friedman and Garzke & Dulin, as well as Warships Projects and Navweaps, I'd be interested to see the sources on those tests, as the notion of Harpoons being tested on battleship armour is new to me.
It also clashes with every other source regarding the issue of being mission killed by superstructure and radar hits.
As for 'scooping out the guts' of a single battleship almost 70 years old, it is much more easier said than done. That would involve cutting through the armour deck, removing the turrets and superstructure and generally completely unbalancing and remaking the ship.
The end result would be just as sinkable as any modern surface combatant, if not more so for principles of shock resistance applied to naval construction post Bikini. All the side armour in the world won't stop a back breaking under the keel hit from several heavyweight torpedoes.
Given a lot of what has been documented on battleships and discussed in texts such as Friedman and Garzke & Dulin, as well as Warships Projects and Navweaps, I'd be interested to see the sources on those tests, as the notion of Harpoons being tested on battleship armour is new to me.
It also clashes with every other source regarding the issue of being mission killed by superstructure and radar hits.
As for 'scooping out the guts' of a single battleship almost 70 years old, it is much more easier said than done. That would involve cutting through the armour deck, removing the turrets and superstructure and generally completely unbalancing and remaking the ship.
The end result would be just as sinkable as any modern surface combatant, if not more so for principles of shock resistance applied to naval construction post Bikini. All the side armour in the world won't stop a back breaking under the keel hit from several heavyweight torpedoes.