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The point is that the shock-propagation damage to electronics is solvable by actually building for it. Even if it's literally just sticking the equipment in spring-isolated blocks or some other similarly tonnage-bleeding brute-force approach. Do you seriously think that a smaller ship with less...

The passive defenses of the Iowa make for a really goddamn weird problem for modern ship-killing methods, because they are wildly impractical to sink unless you have a full-on Arsenal Ship laying around or get out the tactical nukes. The disabling is very much on the Iowas being a clusterfuck of...

Both can be right. Congress dropping the first CVN class as bulk production from insane up-front costs to such a matter, and have been hoodwinked that nuclear as a whole wasn't going to work right in the long run. The idea of nuclear Destroyer-Leaders came to mind for a subject of case studies...

I find myself honestly curious what challenges a "serious" ship with a fully non-corroding exterior made of a composite like fiberglass or carbon fiber would face. Even if it's just a thin "skin" instead of replacing the outer hull entirely, there's definitely some argument to be made to the...

What the hell is the purpose of a ballistic missile sub sitting in the middle of a fleet? Their literal entire point is to be isolated untrackable "backups" for deployment of strategic nuclear weapons, sticking with a group of surface vessels for anything but resupply that ought to be done...

So basically make ballistic subs this way because speed does jack shit for their role because said role is "sit in a general area and wait for the Big Red Button to be pushed"? If a boomer needs to be somewhere in a hurry, then things have gone so dramatically wrong that there's not really much...