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Originally Posted by USS Drum
It's just that it's gonna be kinda hard to kill an Iowa with 4 torpedoes.
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Hard to kill maybe, but easy to risk and easy to cause a lot of casualties (by a sub that is itself manned by a few dozen men at most) and repairs requiring a lot of expense and giant drydocks. A dozen destroyer escorts could be built at the same cost and probably in the same time, and would be many, many times more effective as ASW platforms.
That's strategic thinking
