Talk:Iowa/@comment-36.80.253.242-20160229110313/@comment-21356142-20160303045027

@SpiteEngine You do realise decks were extensively armoured after Jutland in 1916? These decks were built to withstand 1,000kg armour piercing shells dropping in at 800m/s. The Harpoon ain't doing much but tearing up the wooden deck and maybe the top deck plate intended to fuze incoming aerial bombs so they blow up before they get to anything important (modern missiles will still fuck up superstructure and blow apart the unarmoured extremities)