You think a subsonic weapon would penetrate 6 inches of armour. Honestly?. Do you know how thin hull plating is for a modern warship?. If it would penetrate 6″ of ordinary hull plate, let alone hardened armour, it would have been right through the Stark and the Sheff before the warhead detonated!.
5-10mm for the hull plating i’d assume. From memory Aluminium hulled boats for inland are 2-3mm from memory.
Precisely how much trouble do you think?. IF it took 6 repeated impacts on precisely the same plate and penetrated what damage do you think an Exocet would do to a ship with that kind of mass?.
About the same that happened to the County class Destroyer, a few burnt out compartments. As in, the same damage as if hit by a couple of shells.
Think about that. ‘Sunk her’ is the hint.
Yup, I think a famous person once said ships are sunk by letting in water, not by letting in air.
You think that their WW2 vintage Oerlikons would be less effective than the WW2 Oerlikons we were using on their Skyhawks do you?.
Depends how many and how they were guided, there were only three ships.
Destroyed it if they got into guns range. Exocet could not have dealt with the threat on its own – we’d seen how vulnerable it was to softkill seduction already ourselves. Plus we were facing an Exocet threat against us from their DD’s although mitigated by the same softkill factor. Taking Exocet out of the equation you are looking at 4.5″ Mk6’s and Mk8’s (and the Mk8 was no great shakes in ’82 believe me!) taking on a cruiser while the carriers try to run. Its not a pretty scenario.
When were Belgrano’s engines last refitted? How fast was she? Scatter the fleet train and maintain the carriers and escorts a safe distance away while you await the arrival of [insert SSN name].
How precisely could sea skua be targeted? could it be guided to a specific part of a target vessel?
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