Very sure a modern anti-ship missile can kill a battleship with one missile. Those high tier costal boats look so much more powerful then those in bluewater fleet.
Sadly, it never will. Most of anti-ship missiles are developed in era when battleships are all decomissioned and not target for them, and while some of soviet heavy anti-ship missiles were aimed for US Navy carrier, they are more lightly armored than battleships, and will not be sunk by one missile(according to US Navy itself, they expect at least dozen missiles needed)
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The Modern one like the one developed after the 2000s that can go over 1000KM while being bigger then a modern MBT or an Aircraft carrying 750 kg of TNT… Welp Ofcourse they can’t pentrate the armor above water those missles dive down the water once close enough and explode right under the ship causing it to Sink or even worse when it hit the ammo storage.
What kind of science fiction you are reading for…
The last missile with 750 kg warhead(Do note that not 750 kg of TNT), was Granit, which was developed decades ago.
Also, there are no such anti-ship missile that dive down to the water and explode under the ship. You’re confusing with heavy torpedo that are launched by modern submarine.
Common trend of anti-ship missile is focusing on paralyzing the combat system, not sinking entire ship, which is not a good thing or war thunder as it is easy to repair.
They use RDX,HMX and PBX those type of things which is stronger then TNT.
Enough to make a ship unusable. Modern ships dosen’t have armor which is gonna make it easier to destory when hit. In War thunder… it basically gonna make the ship slow as hell and probaly lost most of it crews. Let say it hit the engine bay then water flood in quickly which happens alot in WT therefore your ship became slower or immobile. Impossible to be fixed aswell.
Anyway, no such big TNTe even.
And you’re talking about battleship.
What I’ve meant of paralyzing, is having proximity fuze, and only make radar and bridge above hull unusable. ‘Sinking’ ship would be done by bomb or torpedo afterward. Such tactic is effective in real life, but not in war thunder.
So, which missile in your imagination can penetrate engine room of battleship after penetrating armor?
Both pretty much. But I don’t really think gaijin will really put them together…
It pretty much only Russian missle but I don’t know wether I can trust it or not some still under development. Some just special torpedoes.
They did on Mobile. But I guess they have quite different damage models for ships. They also have also implemented Pr. 903 and S
submarines so naval combat is a lot more different.
As someone mentioned before those missiles are not Anti Battleships so it is questionable how much of a threat they would pose to its hull, everything on deck and above would be a lot more susceptible to damage. Maybe it is more about their precision and speed? We will see.
Adding proper missile ships will also make Chinese Navy more competitive.
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