User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Iowa-class Battleship (1980s refit) vs Kirov-class battlecruiser/@comment-936760-20150501213158

The armor around the ammunition magazines on a Iowa is thick and there actually deep inside of the ship and near the Gun Turrets. Even a hit on the Tomahawk Launchers wouldn't affect the ship in anyway. There would be a fire on the deck but it wouldn't get down very far at all. And it would never reach a magazine for even the close by 5" guns which are just as heavily armored. I know, I've been all through the New Jersey and the armor in places is six feet thick and more. The Bridge armored citadel is 17" thick.Everything important is located within a armored core and even then there is thick armor protection. Only the very stern and forecastle are thinly armored and nothing of importance is really in those areas. Storage and laundry rooms and such.