Most ships today are very thinly armored

That is cool

That's awesome

Modern day anti-ship missiles at least to my knowledge aren't made to penetrate armor.

IJN Musashi survived 17 bomb and 19 torpedo hits before going under.

The only reason a modern Destroyer would win against a WW2 era battleship is due to the fact that they have the accuracy to disable, not sink, a battleship

Yeah

A destroyer would see a battleship long before the battleship could see the destroyer. And thus the destroyer can control the means of engagement.

how would it disable it if it can't penetrate it

The reason anti-ship missiles aren't made to penetrate armor is because no ship today has armor

Also an Iowa Class battleship has about 4x the range of a modern Arleigh Burke Class destroyer. It could literally run the destroyer down.

Not to mention the battleships used since WW2 have CIWS, missiles (anti-ship, anti-air, and sea to ground), radar, and are not slow ships.

Oh btw the Iowa Class still has its original WW2 fire control system because it's ridiculously accurate for dropping 2 ton shells 20+ miles away

Hitting it in the bridge, funnels etc is disabling it. That would by no means take it out though.

I think both ships survive the engagement at long range.

At ranges closer than let's say 50 miles, and the battleship wins hands down.

missiles target ships, not parts of ships

also the conning tower of a battleship has up to a foot and half of armor

they were made to take hits from other battleships

Ooh yeah that's true.

The destroyer would get hits logically in the softer areas.

But the battleship isn't significantly damaged.

At long range.

At short range? That's one dead destroyer. A single salvo is enough to take it out

rocket destroyer

is there a different name for that

I don't know 🤔

Not the hull necessarily, it can technically still target the bridge and fire control

Which are both the most armored parts of the ship

anti ship missiles are made to hit thinly armored modern ships

Not something that was built to take other battleships on head to head

On another note

I did a thing

i mean, a Torpedo from a biplane was enough to completely disable the Atlantics biggest battleship

technically only the steering but yeah

So basically I did as the Germans do and slapped the dual 128 mm as Guns on an unfinished M46 chassis I had lying around

nice

Only problem is, the guns can’t elevate as high as they usually would have been able to on an actual mount

@Zilla that’s torpedos

Not missiles