Coincidentally, the yield of the W23 shell about the same as the one used in Operation Crossroads.
Imagine having it in game. It would deal increased damage against installation-type enemies-and inflict an Irradiated status effect that amplifies the damage done by subsequent attacks.
Imagine having it in game. It would deal increased damage against installation-type enemies-and inflict an Irradiated status effect that amplifies the damage done by subsequent attacks.
Why did you assume the Abyssal wouldn't get a buff from radiation?
Imagine having it in game. It would deal increased damage against installation-type enemies-and inflict an Irradiated status effect that amplifies the damage done by subsequent attacks.
If there was a nuke in-game, then it would need to be realistic, in that you would have a myriad of good reasons not to use it. It could do something like what you said, sure...or, it could sink everything participating in the the battle it's used in, including your own ships.
If there was a nuke in-game, then it would need to be realistic, in that you would have a myriad of good reasons not to use it. It could do something like what you said, sure...or, it could sink everything participating in the the battle it's used in, including your own ships.
You may be interested to know that there is at least one ship still afloat that was closer to the epicenter of the Crossroads nukes than some of the ships that sunk and sailed out of there unscathed. The crew (yes, it was manned) wasn't even harmed.
The USS Laffey (DD-724) was within blast radius of both bombs.
Reality is, it's extremely hard to sink a ship with a nuke unless you directly hit the ship in question. A competent crew and proper post-incident damage control can save the ship most of the time. Unless it's a underwater detonation, but that's another issue entirely (namely, the 16in nuke did not work that way).
You may be interested to know that there is at least one ship still afloat that was closer to the epicenter of the Crossroads nukes than some of the ships that sunk and sailed out of there unscathed. The crew (yes, it was manned) wasn't even harmed.
The USS Laffey (DD-724) was within blast radius of both bombs.
Reality is, it's extremely hard to sink a ship with a nuke unless you directly hit the ship in question. A competent crew and proper post-incident damage control can save the ship most of the time. Unless it's a underwater detonation, but that's another issue entirely (namely, the 16in nuke did not work that way).
No it's not, the radiation surge from an air burst will ignore basically even battleship armor and also activate large sections of the ship in a wide area, this will rapidly kill the crew leaving the ship effectively sunk. It may be possible depending on circumstances to let it 'cool off' and re-man it, but any competent enemy would follow up with normal weapons to kill the lifeless, defenseless hulks. If it explodes in the water the surge of extremely radioactive water will make any ship in a huge radius extremely and hopelessly radioactive and thus functionally sunk. Part of crossroad was to test decontamination of ships exposed but not sunk, all efforts failed and had to be stopped because the radioactivity was simply too intense and pervasive. (To show how bad it was one expert developed X-ray film of a fish... with the radiation coming off a ships hull) In the end all vessels had to be disposed of mostly as target hulks in deep water not a single one anywhere near the blast could be put into a condition where it was even theoretically possible to put it back in service.
Any ship that's anywhere near a large nuclear detonation is a right off from radiation.
Laffey wasn't even close to the danger zone of the weapon in any case
Much of what you just said only applies to the Zone of Radiation, not the blast radius. The Laffey was inside the blast radius (specifically the 5psi over-pressure air blast, somewhere between 6k and 10k yards from the blast center), not the Zone of Radiation (which extended to 5927 yards).
And official documentation places the Laffey as way-too-close to the blast via miscommunication. The crew was under the impression that the bomb was to be dropped an hour later, command was under the impression that the Laffey had moved to the rear due to mechanical trouble.
In any case, the Laffey ended up having to go through massive amounts of decontamination, have all of her piping replaced, much of her shell replaced, and even had parts of her boilers replaced. By this time, she was the US navy's pet destroyer, they could afford the cost.
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Edited out some rather rude commentary. I blame myself for browsing Danbooru after a very, very long day.
Don't point that this way!!
Yamashiro and Fusou were finished off with radar firing at Surigao.This is my 16 inch Mk. 7 three gun turret!!It can even fire nukes as well!!The armor of the Nagato class isn't just for show!!
Sakawa and Nagato sank during the nuke testing during Operation Crossroads.Okay!! I'll present to you all Iowa's equipment!!It can do radar firing!!NO!!!!
Both Katori and Maikaze sank at Truk Island. Katori in particular was directly sunk by Iowa.It was quite active at Truk Island!!
