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Good luck to me think I could stop them Engaging a battleship from the shoreline, unless it's docked/anchored.
Good luck getting within range of a docked/anchored ship. Because if it is, that means the Marines have already landed, run off/killed anyone defending that bit of real estate, secured it, and set up a proper defense. It's our #1 reason for existing, and once we succeed, you can bet your ass that we'll sell our lives dearly defending it.
The DU penetrator of any 120mm APFSDS (Armor Piercing/Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot) round compatible with the M1A1 main gun will do the "hot knife → butter" routine on just about anything it's likely to hit short of a well-hardened bunker. However, it's lethality comes from kinetic energy…meaning it doesn't explode. If it hit a ship's hull, it would likely plow clean through it, and of course kill any sailors unlucky enough to be in it's path, or hit by the stream of molten steel it spews when it "spalls." Beyond that, all you have is a nice clean hole a couple inches in diameter. The tank(s) would have to turn the hull into Swiss cheese to sink it; that could take an awfully long time, and unless the crew is thoroughly incompetent, they will be effecting damage control for the duration.
A large battleship would have little trouble obliterating anything within the tanks' effective range with it's shore guns that close air support doesn't wipe out first.
That's . . . complicated.
A battleship actually isn't armored enough to withstand modern hypervelocity cannon shells. The previous generation shells for the Abrams are known to be rated for a penetration of 765 mm of rolled homogenous armor steel at a range of 2000 meters. For comparison, the main armor belt of an Iowa class battleship is only 310mm of Class A armor, which is an older and significantly less durable armor steel than RHA.
In simple terms, the Iowa has less than half the armor protection required to stop an Abrams sabot round even in her best-protected zones. The tank shells will not "bounce off" as some posters imagine, they will punch through like hot knives through butter. But they will only do limited damage, because a battleship is physically huge and her vital systems are buried deep within her hull under multiple layers of protection. Tank shells have incredible penetration, but they aren't made to penetrate deeply into this sort of target; they're meant to kill tanks, which are massively armored but physically small and single-layered.
In simple terms, a number of tanks could easily cripple a battleship by precisely shooting out its gun turrets, but they would find it nearly impossible to actually SINK her.
One, if the BB isn't shooting back.
A division, if it is a shooting contest, and even then the BB has advantage - it can simply lob out steel and Tomahawk missiles at ranges where the Abrams cannon cannot reach.
The only chance for the tankers is to attempt for a mission kill - hope for a lucky shot at the bridge, the navigation cabin, the ancillary equipment, the rangefinder, the radar - which cannot be armoured and where it hurts.
HMS Rodney 1 - Panzer IV 0
BB 1 - Königstiger 0
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Could people in the Middle Ages do anything to destroy a M1A2 Abrams tank?
If a WWII Battleship were to lob a 16" shell onto a modern M1 Abrams tank from say 8 miles range, would the tank survive, how would the crew fare?
Can an Abrams Tank survive a 16 inch shell from a WW2 Battleship?
Destroy? Probably not possible to actually sink a battleship no matter how many tanks you have.
The last and the greatest battleships ever built, the Iowas, don't have the armor to withstand modern Abrams rounds, but you can't just put tiny holes in an Iowa, she can survive easily, she is designed for it.
However, if, somehow, a company Abrams could get eyes on both sides of a battleship, cleaning off all of her weapons systems and anything exposed on the top would be quite easy.
It is likely that her magazines are too well protected with inner armor and targeting those would be incredibly unlike
Just one.
But it has to be dropped from 35,000 ft, and land squarely in the center of the battleship. Ignoring air resistance, this would impact like a 1.5 kiloton bomb exploding, and that's just the impact! Lets not forget all that fuel and ammunition!
If done right, an Abrams can easily completely destroy a battleship in one shot.
So, first you take your Abrams tank and accelerate it up to a quarter of the speed of light. Exactly how you do this I leave up to the reader. Once you've accomplished that, simply smash it into the battleship. It will impact with the energy of a 38 Gigaton nuclear bomb. The battleship, along with any nearby ships and most of the ocean for miles, will immediately lose any molecular cohesion.
That's how you destroy a battleship (and pretty much anything else) with an M1 Abrams tank.
* For comparison, the largest bomb
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Really hard to say. Probably as many as needed to overwhelm the battleship's damage control instantly by synchronized penetrations along the waterline, which is a lot. M1 Abrams has incredible penetration but lacks ways to deal splash damage, which is needed to sink a battleship. Battleship guns will penetrate and destroy an Abrams easily because of their caliber but they will have trouble hitting. Even if they don't hit they will eat away all the shoreline surrounding the m1, causing indirect splash/vibration damage and/or crew injury. Battleships do have another way, if they get their full c