Arizona was a pre-WWI battleship, designed and built decades before effective air power was devised.

But it was “her turn”.

Supposedly every command and control space (CEC, Radio, etc.) has minimum armor to withstand a 5" shell hit. Even non-vital spaces (for example a berthing space on the main deck) has thicker steel than anything in the active Navy today.

The Iowa was designed to survive and win a sustained engagement taking direct fire from 16" armor piercing shells with >2000lb warheads travelling more than 1500MPH. She doesn’t have much fear for 500 or 1000lb warheads attached to missiles let alone a sea chicken. Also keep in mind the Iowa has 4 CIWS mounts and…

For this thought exercise we are presuming that both ships are fully operational and armed and with a trained crew.

Supposedly it was extremely loud inside the turret when it took a direct hit from a Japanese ~6" shell during WWII, and that caused so little damage we needed to put an arrow on the turret pointing to the dent so people can see it.

The superstructure has armor and the conning tower has very thick armor from the main deck up to the 08 level

Zumwalt’s a big ship and I have no doubt that they followed basic warship design doctrine when they designed her. Compromising even 2 engineering spaces would not be enough to sink her.

Wouldn’t penetrate the armor on the turrets but all you need to do is rattle the gun crew enough at just the right (or wrong) time to cause them to make a mistake. Like I said it would be a lucky hit.

Older design Battleships were sunk by lucky shots, 1 out of hundreds of bombs dropped.

Unless some of those missiles have nuclear warheads I’m pretty sure that the Iowa could take all 80 of those missiles and it would only make it angry.

Probably was moving slightly towards the surface, I’d imagine this photo shoot took more than an hour to get everything “just right”

If the Comcast worker had just set up like he did and then someone came over the crest and crashed that would be one thing. These workers had it pointed out to them multiple times that they were creating a dangerous situation and just plain refused to do anything about it.

Also, not to defend AT&T in any way, but I used to work for them (the company I worked for got acquired) and they had a shit-ton of compliance & safety type training that all employees had to complete every year. And per AT&T policy those Comcast employees were absolutely in the wrong. Now I don’t know if the…

I’m no lawyer but I always thought that people were expected to provide a “reasonable standard of care” which clearly the Comcast employees did not. They created a dangerous situation and then refused to do anything about it even in the face of multiple notices that what they were doing was dangerous.

The truck needs at least a cosmetic 5th wheel deck.

She can warm my tires anytime!

Also, speaking of sexual misconduct, just look at the thighs on that blonde cheerleader, dayum.

I’m not sure about that, people are waiting for more than a month to be “approved” for a buyback.

I believe that both the Focus RS and the CX-9 engines are based on the Ford Duratec HE, was developed by Ford of Europe in the early 2000's