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Everytime someone post these things, the words "bomb magnet" keeps coming to mind.
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Tell me who is going to bomb them?
Certainly not a middle eastern country or north korea. Certainly not China.
Not a single Iowa Class Battleship was sunk or even mission killed during WW2, Korea, Vietnam, or the Gulf War.
Now we are not talking about an Iowa with 1982 era equipment. I am talking about two ships that can be modernized and run for the price of a single DD(X). It would have the ability to hit strategic targets out to 1000 miles with Tactical Tommahawks. It could hit tacticle/strategic targets with it's main guns out to 100-200nm.
These ships would be highly effective against third world nations. Unless the Government has a secret plan to attack Russia or the EU I find it HIGHLY unlikely the Battleships would be in any danger of being sunk.