Iowa Class VS Kirovs

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  @wolfhalupka8992 · 5 years ago

  I love that statement "... because we HAVE an Iowas class battleship!"

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• JO

  @johnbenton3158 · 5 years ago

  You point about the ability to park a battleship to fly the flag in hostile territory where you would never risk a carrier is an excellent one. Having assets that are just so damn hard to kill really has some value.

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  @Archangelglenn · 5 years ago

  The absolute worst crime against ship preservation was the loss of CV-6. That was the worst. The second was of course the loss of HMS Warspite.

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• MI

  @michaelimbesi2314 · 5 years ago

  If NJ was being fired on by the Kirov, the crew would probably know that the armored box launchers wouldn’t survive, so they’d salvo all the missiles regardless of the hit probability because they’re going to lose the missiles anyway and firing them gets the fuel and warheads off the ship so they don’t start fires. So if they had any probability of hitting the Kirov and were under fire, they’d probably salvo all of the Tomahawks, not just 2 or 3.

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• JA

  @jamesstark8316 · 5 years ago

  "I can neither confirm or deny the existence of nuclear weapons on this ship." Been a few decades since I had to use that sentence. Great video.

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  @Philistine47 · 5 years ago

  The thing about <i>Kirov</i> is that IF you can score a hit on her, it&apos;s probably going to land pretty close to something that will cause lots of fun and exciting secondary explosions (the downside of being <b>absolutely jam-packed</b> with missiles). The difficulty is scoring that hit, especially if you&apos;re an <i>Iowa</i> in a 1v1 scenario with no offboard support.

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• BS

  @bsktblmasta31 · 5 years ago

  &quot;...if we get into gun-fighting range with a Kirov, that&apos;s a no contest, and something has gone horribly wrong if a Kirov chooses to get within gun-fighting range of an Iowa.&quot; hahaha love it!

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• GR

  @grathian · 5 years ago (edited)

  Late 80s 2cd Fleet oporders were written that the preferred method of taking out a Kirov was to send in a Los Angeles. They had very little chance of even knowing they were under attack until &nbsp;the Mk 48s were inbound.

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• NI

  @NickPoeschek · 5 years ago

  I don’t know how many times I played this exact scenario as a kid in the old Harpoon video game...

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• RU

  @RustyDice · 5 years ago

  &quot;... because we HAVE an Iowa Class Battleship&quot; 🤣🤣 brilliant!

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• CA

  @carlfromtheoc1788 · 5 years ago

  There was a PC game called 5th Fleet and in one scenario it was a US Surface Action Group (centered on an Iowa class battleship) against a Soviet one (centered on the Kirov). &nbsp;Usually the two sides end up lobbing missiles at each other, with each side losing a destroyer or two. &nbsp;But on two or three occasions, a &quot;close range&quot; gun battle would occur and it always ended up with the Kirov going under from 16&quot; shell fire, usually followed by the smaller ships - as the Iowa class are fast.

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• WI

  @wiltonlewis5369 · 3 years ago

  Interesting, and I like the archer analogy. However I think you underestimate the punch from a SS-N-19 Shipwreck missile. 1650 lb warhead, nevermind the rest of the 7 ton missile traveling at Mach 2 would make a heck of an impact. Which is what it was supposed to do against its primary target, an American carrier.

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