Re: Transphasic Torpedoes
 

Modern laser-guided and computer controlled anti-ship cruise missles with high-explosive (non-nuclear) shaped charges, armor piercing tips, time delayed fuses (don't explode until they are past the armor) would decimate WWII era battleships.

Think about what we did to the Japanese at Laytee Gulf with roughly the same type shells on both sides, but ours were radar targeted. Now imagine much worse damage inflicted, with greater accuracy, by missles launched from a destroyer somewhere in the vicinity of Midway island. It would be no contest.

One air-launched anti-ship missle almost sank a British cruiser at the Falkland islands.

Geo

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 31 May 2001).]