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Originally Posted by gunnut
You have to remember those battleships were built to withstand AP shells fired from their own guns. That was the benchmark for a true battleship.
Iowas were built to withstand 16" AP shells. Each of those weigh the same as a Shipwreck. Their terminal velocity is probably around mach 1.5 to mach 2.
The scenario is still a ship with a lot of armor but little long range firepower against a ship with virtually no armor but a lot of long range firepower.
Point blank, no contest. Iowa's 16" guns would destroy Kirov.
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By the way, there are experimental rockets 3M-45 "Granit" ("Shipwreck") with the engine 4D-04, capable to accelerate momentum up to mach 4 (they have not gone to a series because of disorder of the USSR
). Probably they had a greater chance to strike Iowa.