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An Iowa isn't designed to take hits from modern weapons. When people went to design ships that could take hits from the latest weapons of 1945 they ended up with estimates that you needed more deck armor then an Iowa has on the belt. That was before anyone realized you could put a shaped charge on any weapon you wanted. A mere Hellfire warhead can go through any piece of armor on an Iowa, and a number of Russian missiles can strike with velocity comparable to heavy shells, meaning even a shear kinetic hit could and would go through any piece of armor or indeed any combination of layers of armor on the ship. This assumes one homing torpedo doesn't just blow off the stern or detonate under a magazine.Rebuilding the entire ship to turn it into something completely different will cost as much as building a new ship that would have two or three times the service life and require far fewer men. You want a bunch of missiles, Arsenal Ship would be cheaper and require a mere 50 man crew. Nothing would stop building bigger versions of Arsenal ship either, they varied in scale as it was but most had 256 cell VLS.Stuff like this is why none of these conversion projects ever went anywhere. They never made sense at any point in the missile era.
An Iowa isn't designed to take hits from modern weapons. When people went to design ships that could take hits from the latest weapons of 1945 they ended up with estimates that you needed more deck armor then an Iowa has on the belt. That was before anyone realized you could put a shaped charge on any weapon you wanted. A mere Hellfire warhead can go through any piece of armor on an Iowa, and a number of Russian missiles can strike with velocity comparable to heavy shells, meaning even a shear kinetic hit could and would go through any piece of armor or indeed any combination of layers of armor on the ship. This assumes one homing torpedo doesn't just blow off the stern or detonate under a magazine.
Rebuilding the entire ship to turn it into something completely different will cost as much as building a new ship that would have two or three times the service life and require far fewer men. You want a bunch of missiles, Arsenal Ship would be cheaper and require a mere 50 man crew. Nothing would stop building bigger versions of Arsenal ship either, they varied in scale as it was but most had 256 cell VLS.
Stuff like this is why none of these conversion projects ever went anywhere. They never made sense at any point in the missile era.
