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This sort of reminds me of the bikini island footage.

What is shocking with that footage isn't the devastation of the nukes but rather how damn robust the battle ships sacrificed are. Some of them never sank even after direct hits from a nuke.

So I have to think a carrier might just completely ignore your flying bots and let them attack/hit :)

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No capital ships took direct hits during operation crossroads.

The closest was the USS Arkansas, at 170 yards from ground zero during the underwater baker test. It was lifted all the way to the vertical by the blast, before being pummeled into the sea floor.

Ahh that is right. I was going to double check that and I'm annoyed that I didn't. For some reason I thought some of them were hit directly.

Regardless the ships that did survive I don't think any humans would have survived on those ships given the intense shock waves (as shown by obliterated test sheep).

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