Well if clothes equal armor it make sense since they had the same scheme.
All or nothing.
Basically you leave stuff that doesn't matter if it gets shot, like officer quarters and armor the heck out of the stuff that does, like the engines and ammo magazines
Well if clothes equal armor it make sense since they had the same scheme.
All or nothing.
This is actually funny because, although that's what most people (including the US Navy) claims, it's not technically the case. The 'unarmored' sections (sides) of the Iowa are still designed to resist (not be immune to) everything under 8" shellfire. Her 'unarmored' deck is still largely STS and Class B armor (just not of the thicknesses of the citadel). Off the top of my head, she's also a member of the only class of Battleship in WW2 that actually encased the Rudder mechanism (steering gear) in armor. She had no greater protection than the SoDak class, but she had it over a greater area. Thus, the Iowa's armor scheme is actually the classical 'less-more' scheme, not the 'all-or-nothing' scheme.
Monki said:
Watch that hand Iowa, only the destroyers and Hoppo are allowed to go there.
The Iowa was the ship that officially took possession of the Nagato after the war. So, yeah. She historically went there.
These two have a little history, one which is unfortunately darker than a meeting in battle.
According to Nihon Kaigun, it was an Iowa-led team which boarded Nagato in Tokyo Bay and forced her to strike her colors to mark both her personal surrender and the official end of the IJN. After a strangely humiliating bit of surrender theater, Nagato's battle ensign was afterwards sent to the states as a trophy. Today it can be viewed at the South Dakota Memorial in Sioux Falls.
Ordering Nagato's captain to haul down the flags himself wasn't the USN's finest hour, but it's hard to judge those men given all they'd gone through. In either case, of anyone in the Naval base (including Katori, who was merely sunk), Nagato has the best reason to hate her.
Edit: 8 hours since the last post and I post the same factoid within three minutes of someone else.
