User blog comment:Owlfeathers0117/An idea to make surface ships useful again./@comment-27822653-20141214204956/@comment-11135771-20141214205653

Any but the largest ships could, really, but getting to the surface (and the return trip) would be quite difficult. Larger ships would have more trouble, since smaller and more agile ones would be able to more easily avoid the clouds. I should also note that heavily armored hulls would survive crashing into the clouds, but any vulnerable components like guns or sensors would get wrecked. It might be possible to make specialized cargo ships that are built like bricks and which are essentially like airborne icebreakers; able to simply ram through the frozen clouds with their heavily armored hulls.