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Originally posted by Praxus
A Battleship is obsolite in terms of technology, in terms of use it is anything but.
Nothing else in the world today can deliver as much firepower as just two battleships can short of Nuclear Weapons and the US's entire Strategic Bomber Fleet.
It would take the entire B-52 fleet to deliver the same firepower as one BB.
With new SCRAMJet and 11" Darpa rounds they can 800 and 200 nautical miles in land respectivly.
This is a ship that the Russians said they couldn't do jack to during the Cold War. You could hit the side of the thing with half a dozen anti-ship missiles and you wouldn't even get a mission kill. The easiest way to sink her would be torpedos and with the ammount of ASW support she would have it would make it extremely difficult.
The only reason it isn't back in service is because of Cronyism and Politics.
Why bring something back when you can build new ships doing half the things you need it to for two times the price?
By the way I am not suggesting the B-52 fleet is not needed, I am just using it for comparison purposes.
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So it's not really a battleship anymore, it is more like Floating Artillary.