Technology change and the USS Monitor comparison

How dramatic was the technological change between USS Monitor and the Orlando class?

An Orlando would have put USS Monitor in serious trouble, although gun depression could have made the low ironclad difficult to hit.

A viewer points to the dramatic technological change between USS Monitor and the Orlando class in roughly twenty years. Monitor would likely have been in trouble against the later cruiser. An Orlando might still have needed to keep its distance to depress its guns far enough to hit the low ironclad. The encounter may instead have ended in ramming.