After this video was made, I was informed there was infact another corvette in game! It just wasn't in the corvette section. I have since made a short briefly showing how that would go to correct my mistake!
Consudering Iowa was built and served in a time where 'close' engagements were the primary method of fighting for surface ships, they're completely extremely dominant in a cold war setting.
Taranfuls have 3 termits with a range of 40nm. Iowas tomahawks outrange them significantly, and their warheads are relatively small compared to later soviet AShMs, so a single hit might not be sufficient to sink a battleship. They also have no relyable defence against missiles from Iowa themselves. I would wager it would take 8-10 Tarantul class missile corvettes to sink a modernized Iowa.
I remember the old board/miniatures game Sea Strike - in that game you flipped cards to work out a) if the weapon was active and got a hit and b) what damage it did. Guns only ever did top side damage with very little hull damage - to actually sink a ship rather than strip it bare you needed either torps or missiles. This seems to confirm it.
Not really relevant. Silkworms/Shaddocks have 435kg HEAT warheads which will go through Iowas 14" face hardened steel belt like it isnt even there. The bigger reason for jts survivability is heavy compartmentalization, and sheer bulk.
After this video was made, I was informed there was infact another corvette in game! It just wasn't in the corvette section. I have since made a short briefly showing how that would go to correct my mistake!
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Consudering Iowa was built and served in a time where 'close' engagements were the primary method of fighting for surface ships, they're completely extremely dominant in a cold war setting.
in real term a Tarantula is a Corvette and a few of them could overwhelm Iowa's defenses and sink it with Anti Ship Missiles
I might make a short video on that!
The Iowa is not outfitted for surface action at all. Glass cannon
Taranfuls have 3 termits with a range of 40nm.
Iowas tomahawks outrange them significantly, and their warheads are relatively small compared to later soviet AShMs, so a single hit might not be sufficient to sink a battleship.
They also have no relyable defence against missiles from Iowa themselves.
I would wager it would take 8-10 Tarantul class missile corvettes to sink a modernized Iowa.
Sorry, 4 termits, mjstyped. Point is a single one wont overwhelm an Iowas PD.
It's like being attacked by a swarm of angry bees lol
I know, not deadly, but VERY painful
If they have missiles? I reckon one would do it.
You were close, against the missile corvette it only took 5 of them to destroy the Iowa in game, with even less being needed to cause massive damage.
I remember the old board/miniatures game Sea Strike - in that game you flipped cards to work out a) if the weapon was active and got a hit and b) what damage it did. Guns only ever did top side damage with very little hull damage - to actually sink a ship rather than strip it bare you needed either torps or missiles.
This seems to confirm it.
The benefits of (1) the all-or-nothing armor scheme and (2) actually having armor in the missile age
Not really relevant. Silkworms/Shaddocks have 435kg HEAT warheads which will go through Iowas 14" face hardened steel belt like it isnt even there.
The bigger reason for jts survivability is heavy compartmentalization, and sheer bulk.
Yeah, but that is a mission kill
I do agree, I am just referring to it being counted as an in game kill
No corvette has torpedoes???
There isn't a corvette with anti-ship torpedoes in game yet, but this one did have anti submarine torpedoes