Timeline for Why did navies abandon armour?
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 19:22 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Exocet is a comparatively small missile. Some of the Soviet ASM's were considerably larger, and surface to surface missiles like the SS-N-3 could take out a frigate with one hit. Made Exocet look like a firecracker. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 21:56 | history | edited | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | Alex | Yes, of course. The missiles are designed to hit the modern, existing ships:-) The point is that it is not much harder to make the missiles that will destroy armor of any thickness. But the existing missiles are optimized for existing ships. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | SMS von der Tann | Hmm, doing a little poking around, it seems that a number of anti-ship missiles (Exocet MM39 for example) can only penetrate about 5 inches max of armour. | |
| Mar 8, 2016 at 21:10 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |