remember, the S-300s all have an additional anti-ship mode. They don't have the warhead of shipwreck, but they sure had more kinetic energy. Same with the 192 Gauntlets. That's a total of 288 missiles outside of the 20 shipwreck. You could damage a lot of the sensors on board Iowa and achieve at minimum a mission kill. As for point blank, you really think an Iowa class can catch up to a nuclear powered Kirov cruiser?
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As you say the 90 sams coming at Iowa speaks nothing about the 16 Harpoons or 32 Tomahawks on their way to the Kirov as soon as a launch is detected. Only one needs to strike the Kirov and its game over, the same cannot be said about the Iowas. We wouldnt waste our missles in that fashion and the Kirov's couldnt stand up to one of the Harpoons with all of those missle hiding under the decks.
If you want to waste your Kirov and millions perhaps billions of dollars in missles then by all means please do. But also remember that 4 of the Iowas still exist and are servicable 3 of which are very well maintained. The very same cannot be said for the Kirovs and the Soviet fleet has nothing on the surface that can stand up to an Iowa outside of sub and we have them too
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huh? You think a harpoon can offer the same damage as a shipwreck or even a S-300 missile? You have to get past 8 Kashtan. You will probably need a concentrated attack to get past that.