Saphroneth
Banned
The combination of high firepower, point defence and a long range sensor certainly makes it powerful.NaruHina![]()
The combination of high firepower, point defence and a long range sensor certainly makes it powerful.NaruHina![]()
The original proposal for the arsenal ship was really just a truck. Not even advanced radars since they would rely upon other ship Aegis systems, reduced crew (in one case I read 40 men). You go to the launch point, press da big red button, wipe out the North Korean (or whatever enemy is in vogue today) fleet and abandon the ship.
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It's a fan-ship - that is, a relationSHIP between two fictional characters. In this case it's Naruto and Hinata from the Naruto manga.I do not know this ship...![]()
It's a fan-ship - that is, a relationSHIP between two fictional characters. In this case it's Naruto and Hinata from the Naruto manga.
It's a fan-ship - that is, a relationSHIP between two fictional characters. In this case it's Naruto and Hinata from the Naruto manga.
What would count as the most powerful ship during Roman times? Is it the biggest, or does their lack of maneuverability hamper that such that a smaller and handier ship is considered individually superior?
Well then, get an old, 2nd hand container carrier, load up on missile canisters, and you're good to go...
3M54 Klub, hidden inside containers. An innocent looking portacontainer ships packs the same firepower of an Arleigh Burke. Pearl Harbour on steroids.
One, the destroyers had the radars, even if the escorts did not. Two, as long as enough 5" hits, it's going to hurt, especially when the opposing ships upper works are festooned with large canisters of pure oxygen attached to large warheads. Three, part of that action involved the destroyers firing out of a rain squall - you don't need too much rough weather for the obstruction to tell. Four, how do you think you fire accurately through a smoke screen. Five, the Japanese were "confused" to the tune of three busted heavy cruisers, almost entirely due to the guns, torpedoes, and aircraft of the Taffy 3 task forces.
If the guns hit, they can allow destroyers to cut heavy cruisers. You can compare gun calibres all day long, but if they can't hit, they are nothing. The Iowa was leagues ahead of the fire control arrangements of its peers. Heck, you could argue that the fire control systems could allow the South Dakotas and the North Carolinas to have inflicted serious damage on Yamato, as the US ships can maneuver evasively whilst firing accurately.
The most powerful ship in the world ? huumm hard to answer.
In terms of pure firepower the (ex) Kirov-class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser) is IMO the most powerful ship actually in service.
They simply have too much missile for leaving a chance to ANY ennemy ships. Our poor FREMM can only launch a salvo of 4 to 8 missile. Ridiculous against Kirov-class.
In fact I think that actually two Kirov-class could wipe ALL my national Fleet (La Royale) with maximum one loss.
By late WW2 the US was able to straddle at very long range. This is a major advantage since a hit at very long range will by definition do pretty horrible plunging damage, and against a non-RADAR opponent it is essentially an immune zone.
That is quite irrelevant, as the maximum gunrange is already inferior to more likely threats by then, submarine and air weapons, against which the BB has no real defense of her own, other than the ability to soak up damage as good as possible. It was too little far too late in technology, already obsolete, as much as the BB itself.