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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
Fritz, You certainly arent capable of judging my credibility in any sense of the word. All I did was play by the rules that the thread dictated namely unrealistic. If you failed to yield to the sense that I repeated numerous times through out the thread namely two different ships two different roles then the failure of understanding is not mine.
The whatever ending to your comments seems to reveal that you failed to understand the premise of the thread and the warnings given.
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A. There is no
r in my handle.
B. I am in a perfect position to judge your character. You have made nothing but assumptions about me I might point out.
C. Here was the original question:
i dont believe I have seen a post about this on here, but according to some sources I have read, one of the primary driving forces behind reactivating the Iowas in the 1980s was the Soviet Kirov Class Battlecruiser. My question is, if these two were to encounter each other, who would be the winner? If I am not mistaken, the Kirovs were the closest thing to another battleship that the Iowas could hope to cross swords with.
What do you think?
I don't see anything in there about making up invisible radar systems with performance that defy the laws of physics or making up non-existant capabilities for existing weapons to try to gain an
edge.
I understand that these are different ships with different roles. So what? What does that have to do with what would happen if they went mano-a-mano in the big blue? That was the question after all. Ships don't have to be perfectly matched to pose such hypothetical questions now do they? Heck, if you want to talk about different ships for different roles a few years ago I was involved in a similar discussion pairing the Bismark against an FFG-7. No less than Norman Friedman got involved in that one. That was not only different ships for different roles but different era's to boot. Just because such out-of-time scanario's are pointless and silly doesn't mean you can't have a serious, meaningful discussion about them.