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Originally posted by fastpat
A couple of well placed, large armor piercing bombs of about 5-6000 pounds each would blow the bottom out of that ship.
Ever see what the British did with one "Tall Boy" against the Tirpitz. I've seen the film from the Lancaster that dropped the bomb, very impressive.
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ONLY a couple well placed bombs of 5-6000lbs?
LOL!
That's like saying "only a few .500 nitro express rounds will take down a charging elephant".
The Battleship Mushashi, sister ship to Yamato and about equivelantly protected to the Iowa class ship pictured above, took 9 armor piercing bombs and seven heavy weight Mk13 torpedos to sink.
The USS Cole- typical of modern warship designs- was almost blown in half with a rubber boat full of C-4.
There is something to be said about 'the way we used to make em'.
