WWII battleships have so much armor that modern missiles have no effect...
I read somewhere on FR that the steel used to make the armor plate couldn’t be re-created/built again; the secret had been lost...
True?
Not true?
Ya right! Ever hear of the General Belgrano?
WWII battleships have so much armor that modern missiles have no effect...
A nuke tipped anti-ship weapon
“WWII battleships have so much armor that modern missiles have no effect...”
It’s actually the other way around.
Warhead design has advanced so greatly since 1940 that plate armor (tempered steel, with face hardening) is no longer any protection. The most basic shaped charge handily defeats thicknesses of armor far greater than is feasible to hang on a warship, or a vehicle.
Different projectile-defeating concepts are demanded. Some of these new armoring systems can be installed on vehicles, but the large size of warships renders their use at sea infeasible; issues of buoyancy and stability further limit utility, which is the case with conventional plate armor also.