Can a tank shell penetrate a warship?
A tank poses little threat to a modern warship. A tank round can easily penetrate a ship in certain areas but the chances of it sinking the entire ship are null. Think of a warship like a honeycomb system, they can take a massive amount of punishment and still operate.
Yes, 320 M1A2 tanks (80 platoons) can sink an Iowa-class battleship. Although, only about 300 tanks (75 platoons) would probably be required. The 120mm gun on an M1A2 tank can do damage to an Iowa-class battleship provided that there are enough of them and plenty of ammo.
The shell would obliterate the tank and everything near it. The Abrams would be in pieces. Even if it wasn't a direct it the explosion would destroy or put the tank out of action for a very long time (forever). The shock wave from the impact could kill the crew by itself.
Yes. The M1 Abrams equipped with the 120mm L/44 M256 main gun firing the M829A1 APFSDS can penetrate over 700mm of rolled hom*ogenous steel armor plate.
During WWII tanks from the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) sank at least one German war ship (and “salvaged” the ship's bell which is kept on display in the Officer's Mess of that Regiment.
During the world wars of the early and mid-twentieth century, hundreds of ships and vessels were sunk. Torpedoes, underwater mines, depth charges, artillery fire etc. were responsible for the majority of these cases.
Battleships also proved to be very vulnerable to mines, as was evidenced in the Russo-Japanese War and both World Wars. After the Battle of Port Arthur, a number of Russian and Japanese vessels were struck by mines and either sank or were scuttled to prevent their capture.
Of the nine Abrams tanks destroyed, seven were destroyed by friendly fire and two intentionally destroyed to prevent capture by the Iraqi Army. No M1s were lost to enemy tank fire. Some others took minor combat damage, with little effect on their operational readiness.
Although 152-millimeter artillery shells could likely destroy an Abrams, it would require a direct hit, which is difficult to achieve (and mostly relies on luck) with an unguided, indirect-fire weapon.
KE rounds are designed to defeat advanced threat armor by firing a sub-caliber projectile at high velocity. The M829A4 KE cartridge is currently in production, and provides the most effective armor-defeat capability in the world. HE rounds are designed to defeat various targets using explosive energy.
Could a tiger beat an Abrams?
Could a tiger tank beat an Abrams? The Tiger would stand ZERO chance versus an Abrams in ANY circ*mstance. Its 88mm cannot penetrate an Abrams anywhere except the rear where a huge engine block is.
Of the nine Abrams destroyed, seven were due to friendly fire, and two were intentionally destroyed to prevent capture after they became disabled.
Heavy Cruisers can also kill Battleships when they have enough numerical superiority (on a cost-equivalent basis, a larger CA-only force will win against a BB-only fleet).
The 1995 San Diego tank rampage was the theft of an M60A3 tank by Shawn Timothy Nelson and his destruction of cars and utilities in suburban San Diego. Nelson was a native Californian and United States Army veteran with unusual habits that drew the attention of his neighbors.
The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, excluding such events as the destruction of entire fleets like the 1274 and 1281 storms that are said to ...
There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship. Ships are divided into watertight compartments so that flooding due to any damage to the hull is restricted to only the damaged compartments.
On the afternoon of 7 May, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland inside the declared war zone. A second internal explosion caused her to sink in 18 minutes, killing 1,199 passengers and crew.
A wide steel belt is provided over the wheels of an army tank to increase the area of contact and so the pressure on the belt of the heavy weight of the tank gets reduced. This prevents the tank from sinking into the ground.
Water will rush in to fill the space that the moving mass occupied, which will create a localized current. Whether or not that current has the force necessary to drag you down will depend on the size, speed, and shape of the object in motion. Yes it does.
The Bismarck was the most feared battleship in the German Kriegsmarine (War Navy) and, at over 250 metres in length, the biggest. Yet, despite its presence, it would sink only one ship in its only battle. So what exactly made the Bismarck so famous?
What battleship survived a nuke?
The USS Nevada easily survived that nuclear blast and a later underwater explosion of equal force known as the “Baker” test. Our veteran panelists told us at our recent Breakfast Question and Answer session that after the tests they were sent to re-board the ship for up to eight hours.
According to an assessment by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “A large ship, about a mile away from the explosion, would escape sinking, but the crew would be killed by the deadly burst of radiations from the bomb, and only a ghost ship would remain, floating unattended in the vast waters of the ocean.”
Its heavy weight and high speed means it guzzles gas and needs frequent refueling. “Once it is refilled it can move at a blinding speed but it doesn't have a good mileage,” said Piers Wood, a senior fellow at Global Security.org. In addition, the tank's turbine engine make it vulnerable to dust.
The main difference between the Abrams and Leopards is the engine. The Leopard 2 has a diesel-powered MTU MB 873 engine, which is much easier to maintain and more widely used across Europe, while the Abrams uses a more powerful and more complex turbine engine.
To date, two Challenger 2 tanks are confirmed to have been destroyed in operations; the first was by accidental friendly fire from another Challenger 2 in Basra in 2003, and the second was during the Russo-Ukrainian War, where the tank was destroyed under Ukrainian control during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Since most of the readily available RPG-7 rounds cannot penetrate M1 Abrams tank armor from almost any angle, it is primarily effective against soft-skinned or lightly armored vehicles, and infantry.
Lethality. The M1 boasts a 120mm XM256 smoothbore cannon, a high velocity – and highly accurate – weapon that can destroy enemy tanks and other hard targets. The cannon can effectively hit targets as much as 1.86 miles away. It also includes a 7.62 mm M240, a belt-fed, gas operated, medium-sized coaxial machine gun.
In the 1990s, the M1 Abrams gained several tons with the addition of superheavy depleted uranium to the armor matrix. Other upgrades, including power generators, electronics, and remote-controlled machine guns, have added more weight still.
The majority of modern tanks are fitted with smoothbore guns, which do not utilise rifled barrels in order to impart spin to projectiles as they are fired (see Annex B). A notable exception is the British Challenger 2 tank, which uses the 120 mm L30 rifled gun.
The M829A1 round weighs 20.9 kg (46 lb) and has an overall length of 984 mm (38.7 in). The 7.9 kg (17 lb) of JA-19 propellant creates a chamber pressure of 5,600 bars (81,221 psi), which results in a muzzle velocity of 1,575 m/s (5,170 ft/s).
Which country has the best war tank?
- Nr.1 Leopard 2A7A1 (Germany) ...
- Nr.2 K2 Black Panther (South Korea) ...
- Nr.3 M1A2 SEP Abrams (USA) ...
- Nr.4 Challenger 2 (United Kingdom) ...
- Nr.5 Armata (Russia) ...
- Nr.6 Merkava Mk.4 (Israel) ...
- Nr.7 Type 90 (Japan) ...
- Nr.8 Leclerc (France)
The 17-pounder gun, mounted on the Sherman Firefly and some M10 tank destroyers, was the British answer to the Tiger problem and could effectively penetrate their armor. Over 2,000 were produced, while the 90 mm guns of the American M36 tank destroyer—later of the M26 Pershing—also demonstrated a capable counterthreat.
With their long range and thick armor, German Tiger tanks would prove throughout the war that one could hold off ten or more M4 Sherman tanks.
A standard M4 Sherman would have a very hard time of it though (and all but impossible with the Tiger II), with the 75mm M2 gun they were originally designed with, but except in the case of brittle armour plates and / or faulty welds (which was actually pretty common late war) several shots at close range to the rear ...
The M1's turbine engine gives the tank the power and agility necessary to maneuver in hostile environments. To give the tank decent traveling range, General Dynamics had to give it some mammoth fuel tanks.
HOW MUCH DOES AN M1 ABRAMS TANK COST? The Abrams tanks are made by General Dynamics and each one costs over $10 million when including training and upkeep, according to Reuters.
The U.S. doesn't build new tanks from scratch. It has a fleet of about 2,500 Abrams, and takes older tanks, tears them down and and uses the empty hull as a starting point to build a new one. Some hulls have been refurbished multiple times.
Yamato 's Last Voyage. On her last morning, before the first American planes intercepted her, Yamato would have appeared indestructible. After all, she was the heaviest and most powerful battleship ever built, carrying the most formidable guns ever mounted at sea.
British battlecruisers in particular suffered heavy losses at Jutland, where poor fire safety and ammunition handling practices left them vulnerable to catastrophic magazine explosions following hits to their main turrets from large-calibre shells.
The thickest armour ever carried was in HMS Inflexible (completed 1881), measuring 60 cm (24 in) backed by teak up to a maximum thickness of 107 cm (42 in).
What was the worst tank ever built?
Furthermore, due to the shape of the underlying tractor and undue vibrations, shooting from the tank was both difficult and inevitably inaccurate. These limitations have caused the Bob Semple Tank to frequently make lists of "Worst ever tanks".
Technically, purchasing a functional tank (one with an operational cannon) is legal but most civilians don't qualify. A Destructive Device permit or license is required, and these are very seldom issued.
The world's rarest tank, the A7V Sturmpanzerwagen known as Mephisto, has been reunited with what is believed to be its original compass. Tom Lamin with the compass which has been reunited with a World War I tank.
The Doña Paz remains the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster of all time, with almost three times more casualties than the Titanic. The SS Cap Arcona was a luxury ocean liner launched in 1927 and was the flagship of the Hamburg-South America line.
On June 14th, 2023, the Adriana, a fishing boat carrying 750 people, capsized in the Mediterranean. The more than 600 deaths were entirely preventable. And yet the world barely flinched.
According to an analysis by Unesco, there are over three million resting undiscovered in the world's oceans. These elusive relics are unlikely to be evenly distributed.
this boat." More than hundred years ago, at 1140 on. April 14, 1912 Titanic struck the iceberg.
"Even God himself couldn't sink this ship" - Edward John Smith, captain of RMS Titanic.
Heavy rain can cause serious damage to boats in a number of ways. The most obvious way is by sinking the boat. The weight of the water can overwhelm the boat, causing it to take on water and eventually sink. This is more likely to happen with smaller boats, but even large boats can be at risk in extreme conditions.
Well, it's pretty obvious that a battleship's weapons can destroy a tank. The size of the ordnance fired is more than enough to accomplish that.
Why doesn't a battleship sink?
The average density of a boat — the combination of the steel and the air — is very light compared to the average density of water. So very little of the boat actually has to submerge into the water before it has displaced the weight of the boat.
Eli T. Reich was a highly decorated World War II veteran who was awarded three Navy Crosses for his command of the USS Sealion (SS-315), including, notably, the destruction of the Japanese battleship Kongō—the only battleship sunk by an Allied submarine in the war.
With all the watertight door closed, a carrier is very difficult to sink. You must blow holes in most of the compartments to let enough water in so that it is no longer buoyant.
Of the nine Abrams tanks destroyed, seven were destroyed by friendly fire and two intentionally destroyed to prevent capture by the Iraqi Army. No M1s were lost to enemy tank fire. Some others took minor combat damage, with little effect on their operational readiness.
Can a bradley beat an Abrams? During the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War, M2 Bradleys destroyed more Iraqi armored vehicles than the M1 Abrams. Twenty Bradleys were lost, three to enemy fire and 17 due to friendly fire incidents.
Except for Kearsarge, named by an act of Congress, all U.S. Navy battleships have been named for states, and each of the 48 contiguous states has had at least one battleship named for it except Montana; two battleships were authorized to be named Montana but both were cancelled before construction started.
World War II gave the world's navies a crash course in the next phase of war at sea. The pointy end of the spear became aircraft, guided weapons (missiles and torpedoes) and submarines—not the guns on board a ship—thus largely ending of the utility of the battleship in the open ocean.
Originally Answered: What ship can't sink? There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship. Ships are divided into watertight compartments so that flooding due to any damage to the hull is restricted to only the damaged compartments.
Yes it floats. And it has displaced its "own weight of water" in the sense that if you had filled the container with water and only then lowered the ship into the container, nearly all that water would have been dispaced and is now sloshing around on the floor.
A battleship or even a large cruiser could very easily sink an aircraft carrier if she could close the range sufficiently to bring the carrier under fire. How such a ship can close the range from 200 to 20 miles in the face of a hostile air group and against a ship which is as fast or faster is something of a mystery.
Can a single torpedo sink a battleship?
The answer is of course, that one torpedo can sink a ship regardless of her size. Let's turn to some historical examples where this happened. On November 13, 1941, Force H was returning to Gibraltar after relocating aircraft to Malta.
It took four and a half days to sink the U.S.S. Nevada. The 575-foot-long battleship, painted bright orange from its earlier role as a nuclear test target, was towed out of Pearl Harbor to sea, where a classified explosive was detonated in its hull.
A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, for example, is 134 feet wide at its widest at the waterline; this prevents the buoyancy force from pushing on one side or the other from below and flipping the ship over.
To answer your headline question: A level deck allows for faster take-off with a greater payload than a ski-jump. The ski-jump is useful for reducing the take-off speed required to launch, but it has some risks for aircraft that cannot thrust vector as airspeed reduces after launch...
