(February 25, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:"American aircraft carriers are very big ammunition depots housing a lot of missiles, rockets, torpedoes and everything else,"
The Japanese knew that too. Their record in exploiting it was spotty.
And those carriers had very little armor protection. These have several inches of passive armor, and are being considered for upgrade to "dynamic armor", which uses electrical fields to inhibit the usefulness of shaped charges.
Additionally, with a 50% surplus in electricity generation, upgrading it with the LaWS laser system, capable of killing attacking aircraft and small boats, seems like an obvious move.
"Suicide boats", indeed.
