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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by astrodust on Sunday April 02, 2017 @01:41AM (#14015980)
It'd run out of ammunition before they ran out of ships. Then it'd get swarmed by tens of thousands of angry sailors.
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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by solotronics on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:10AM (#14016064)
probably it would steam at cruising speed and ram through the wooden ships for days while conserving it's main guns.. I'm pretty sure a cannon ball wouldn't penetrate the armor of a battleship
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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by astrodust on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:13AM (#14016270)
It's got finite amounts of oil. The cannon balls might not be able to crack the citadel, the core armor, but they could sure destroy just about every other element of the ship. I'm not sure it'd work that well with the funnels caved in from repeated bombardment, the engines would just choke. Anything weakly armored is going to get pounded to hell.

It would take a lot of ships, but it could be defeated.

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