Re: Tin Cans versus Dreadnoughts

"The only modern battleship that was an "easy" kill that I can think of
was
the Italian Roma, sunk by a  single (or possibly 2) hits from a 1400lb
guided bomb which exploded her magazine."

That glide bomb was Fritz X and "was especially intended for attacking
heavily armored ships."  The Fritz X also heavily damaged the Battleship
Italia.  On September 16, 1943; the Fritz X was used to attack "the
British
Battleship Warspite at Salerno and damaged it so heavily that it had to
be
towed to Malta and was out of action for six months."  What brought an
end
to the terror of the Fritz X was that the allies captured a few in
Italy,
and developed jammers.	Otherwise D-Day would have been a lot worse...

Fritz X stats:
length: 		   3262 mm
fuselage dia.:		 562 mm
wingspan:		 1352 mm
total weight:		 1575 kg
explosive weight:    320 kg of amatol
velocity:		  343 mps

The Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth class BB.  She dispaced 33,000 tons
and
had 8 x 15 inch guns.  This ship was laid down in 1912 to 1913, but was
modernized before WWII.

ias