It’s not the hole you have to worry about, it’s cracks and damage in frames, buckled plates and shock damage to systems. And the battleship will give a shit that you flooded some compartments because it now weighs 1000 tonnes more and can’t move as quickly when the second salvo comes in from the sub, or when that…

The issue is that your battleship doesn’t bring anything to the table that your military can’t already do. I’m a bit of a purist and I love the idea of a new battleship, really I do and yes, shells dropping from the sky 100 miles in land would be great. But you can get munitions on target for a lot less money with a…

Well actually most NATO navies started working on shape charge warheads to defeat the Alfa Class submarine...which was made from a titanium alloy. I don’t think they’ll struggle to hole your steel battleship

She might well have survived but she would have been combat ineffective without her bow, and the same thing would happen if your modern BB lost its bow. The advantage of a destroyer is they’re a lot cheaper, you can afford to lose one, whereas the Naval stalemate of World War 1 shows us that countries are scared to…

Well the Belgrano was sunk by a torpedo taking its bow clean off...