Thai navy joins pirate patrol

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

A head to head gun battle was one of the things the British feared most during the Falklands war. The ARA General Belgrano (Fmr. USS Phoenix CL 46) was feared that if it got within gun range of the British task force her longer range guns would devastate them, her armor was believed to be able to be able to protect her from all but a determined attack using modern weapons. Torpedoes or an airstrike would have been the TF's only reliable method of sinking her as their naval guns lack the range to engage and their Exocets like most ASMs lacked armor piercing warheads.

I think that last Gun vs. Gun battle involving regular naval forces was in the 1990s between North and South Korea. In Vietnam there were a few gun vs gun battles between ships I think (mostly armed junks and sampans against US patrol boats.)

nothing on a scale comparable with WWII though.