26-inch thick armor from a Japanese Yamato class battleship.....

[Justdroppedin]

pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.....


https://i.redd.it/ccwjkoldidi91.jpg

[The Noof]

It's hard to imagine that 16" of armor just wasn't enough...

[dishuser]

It's hard to imagine that 16" of armor just wasn't enough...

even 26" wasn't enough...lol

[steveOtoo]

Full metal jacket............

[Terryl]

We only sold them the cheep steel, looks like bad tempering, class D armor.

We use to call anything over the size of a destroyer a bomb magnet.