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I have a battleship design with 8 heavy cannons, 7 secondary cannons, 6 anti-submarine/anti-pursuit torpedo launchers, and 16 Surface-to-Air/Surface-to-Surface missile launchers, 4 of which are equipped with nuclear warheads; the ship at it's widest is 535 feet wide, and it's length makes it 32 1/2 feet short of the full length of a Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier, at 1,063 1/2 feet long. Oh, and the 7 secondaries are railguns. ;) Took me 3 days to draw, and the main hull design I used was from a German battleship designed in 1944. :P
Yeah, like I said, the class was never mentioned in the drawing, and I just used the basic design of the bottom of the hull to go off of, and from there, I just built the rest of the ship on my own based on what I was seeing in my mind's eye. The bridge was noticeable, of course, but it also wouldn't be a "complete" battleship if the captain wasn't intended to instead be in an AUXILIARY bridge. ;) This ship was DESIGNED to take a beating, hence (at the time) it's sheer size. I may also decide to have the interior(s) of the ship just be heavily armored, even the magazine storage, basing it off of the vulnerability potential of the magazine storages of the battleships during the war. :P
Hey, I just drew torpedo tubes on the front and back ends of the ship, it's intended to use the most modern style of equipment our navy has to put on battleships TO DATE. And sure, I might have pictures of the drawing in my dropbox account, gimme a second, I'll send them to you in a note.
Like I said, the ship was designed in 2-3 days, during my junior year of high school, and I have no idea what the hell goes on a damn battleship OTHER THAN the basic weapons types to counteract MULTIPLE threats; the empty space (or what space IS left) will be used for AA emplacements. These ships would act as flagships/escorts for the newer aircraft carriers the navy is currently building right now.
Ah. Then those would be on the back end, where the most vulnerable piece of ship happens to be: the rudders. It has 4, but the ship is also designed as an interceptor, so I'm hoping it can go at least 40 knots while going in a straight line, but when turning, reduced to 30-25ish. :/ And I designed this ship after hearing all the crap about what happened with our naval officers being captured by Iran as well as Iranian picket destroyers taking out a mock effigy of one of our carriers.
Well, of course. Place a bunch of rooms that are bound to be the first to go, a bunch of door-closing bulkheads (the rooms will not be intended to be operational, so no loss of life), place interior thick armor plating and torpedo defense belts behind that armor plating, and it's a sure one-time successful defense (just a guess here).
Well, that's where the AA comes in handy, our latest ones are computerized, but the ship will also need ones that are manned in the case of EMP bursts, potentially, just like the old ships. So this ship will also be designed with anti-computer virus countermeasures, so not only will it be modern, it'll also have lessons from WWII added in; based off of the movie Battleship with Liam Neeson.
Of course, which would render most computerized modern day engines vulnerable and useless. The engines of the Iowa class would still be usable for emergency engines, so its make sense to have backups. Most backups of modern technology would be that of those used in worls war 2 era battleships.
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