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So what would a guided missile battleship look like? my guess would be trident sized(2m) silos as the main battery and you fill them with vls cells as a workin
by somat 10mo ago
So what would a guided missile battleship look like?
my guess would be trident sized(2m) silos as the main battery and you fill them with vls cells as a working battery. for armor It needs to be able to defend agenst it's own gun right, so that would probably be a bunch of missile defense systems.
It is often said that aircraft carriers replaced battleships but I don't think that is the case, I think aircraft carriers are kind of their own thing and the battleship role was actually replaced by ballistic missile submarines. Think about it, where are the big guns in the navy located? And the more tenuous but fun argument, look how the ships are named, battleships got state names, SSBN's got state names coincidence, I think not.
- herewulf 10mo agoBattleships are meant to fight other battleships. And you don't nuke ships. They are a relic from WWI when ships still had to engage each other directly. They also filled a shore bombardment role. But you also don't use nukes for that (rather modern aircraft). Disclaimer: IANAS (I Am Not A Squid)
- somat 10mo ago> And you don't nuke ships Not for lack of trying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUM-44_SUBROC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUM-44_SUBROC And the Iowa battle ships were later equipped to handle "special weapons" But in seriousness, the restraint shown in the use of nuclear weapons is amazing, one day the genie will be let out of the lamp but it hasn't yes. On the topic of genies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie (sigh) yes an air to air missile with a nuclear warhead was not only invented it was built and deployed... With how hard we were actively flirting with the demon that is nuclear war it is incredible that anyone is still alive.