Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
It is undeniable that any American fleet will have a much stronger defensive screen than a lone cruiser (for comparison, the Slava-class cruiser is equivalent in size to a WW2-era Brooklyn-class cruiser, of which the USS Phoenix/ARA General Belgrano was an example). But by the same token, the Slava-class experienced catastrophic secondary damage from just two missiles, of which the Ukrainian Neptune arsenal could potentially fire 72 near-simultaneously (18 launchers x 4 tubes each, carrying 330lb warheads). So the interesting exercise is to scale the offense to the defense and see how it hashes out, in theory.

Speaking of which, torpedo drone - that's a new one. Maybe we could procure some from Iran?

Another lesson of the war: China could never concentrate enough ground power in Taiwan to clear the eastern, mountainous, half of irregular resistance with even moderate foreign naval intervention to contend with.
There's a gamer youtube channel called The Mighty Jingles, who used to serve in the Royal Navy. During the Gulf War, his ship, a relatively non-essential vessel, was used to provide defensive cover for a hospital ship. This took the form of interposing its broadside between the hospital ship and any possible incoming missiles, so the missiles would hit it and not the hospital ship.