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

which plane mounted torpedo's from WW2 are completely inferior to modern anti-ship missiles

Aren’t torpedos basically designed to penetrate the hull armor though?

Considering anti ship missiles are meant to hit at the waterline, no

well not exactly, torpedo's have no penetrative powder due to being a slow projectile

and a lot of torpedos detonate underneath the ship

a torpedo's main damage comes from the explosive force itself

So the pressure is what destroys the ship and not the explosive

also, its really only modern torpedo's that go under the vessel and explode, WW2 torpedo's impacted at around the waterline

late war torpedos did that

anyways a modern destroyer would be hardpressed to win a 1 on 1 with something like the Iowa Class

Actually for battleships the most armoured part of the ship is the turrets.

Followed by the area around the bridge.