Originally posted by zraver
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The belt on the Iowas was built to take supersonic 1000 kg AP shells, and it is behind a deeply spaced layer of 1.5" armor, so while the AShM warhead might take out the sensors and heavily damage her, it is unlikely to penetrate the inner armored raft, the deck could handle 1000# bombs and 6" armor deck was a deck down under the outer 1.5" bomb deck, there was even another armored splinter deck under the Armor deck. There are heavy armored grates in the stacks and intakes too, they are designed to take bombs and shells. The AShM's are designed to attack modern unarmored ships and aren't designed or fused for the kind of heavy layered armor the Iowa carries, they would probably blow a hole in the shell or upper deck, the armor would deflect the fragments. A modern torpedo would be much more likely to sink one. But they are staying at their museums and if someone comes and sinks them there will be war....
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