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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Sept 27, 2024 9:10:13 GMT
Forget the cruisers. Bring back the battleships! Good thinking. The rwo biggest battleships ever, Musashi and Yamato were crucial in Japans Pacific war, primarily by taking resources away from much more useful and needed weaponry. |
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Sept 27, 2024 11:46:48 GMT
Forget the cruisers. Bring back the battleships! Good thinking. The rwo biggest battleships ever, Musashi and Yamato were crucial in Japans Pacific war, primarily by taking resources away from much more useful and needed weaponry. Yes, they were the best WW1 weapons in WW2. Of course there was a third one that was converted to a carrier halfway through construction and it fared even worse, being sunk before it was even ready for combat. |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 27, 2024 13:55:40 GMT
Good thinking. The rwo biggest battleships ever, Musashi and Yamato were crucial in Japans Pacific war, primarily by taking resources away from much more useful and needed weaponry. Yes, they were the best WW1 weapons in WW2. Of course there was a third one that was converted to a carrier halfway through construction and it fared even worse, being sunk before it was even ready for combat. There is some noise being made to put the Iowa-class battleships in commission again, but there would be problems with it. Parts for them aren't being made anymore. You might have seen the story about the submarine called USS New Jersey recently. It kind of tells me that the battleship USS New Jersey is going to stay in retirement. They're not going to have two ships with the same name in commission at the same time. Just for kicks I looked up the longest battleship-on-battleship hit. It happened in the Med at the battle of Calabria in 1940. HMS Warspite scored a hit on Giullio Cesare from fourteen miles away. Meanwhile, planes from a carrier can hit an enemy ship from hundreds of miles away. It's true that battleships could do better with missiles, but they can put those same missiles on smaller and cheaper ships. I like battleships too, but it's just a matter of economy. |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Sept 27, 2024 14:08:14 GMT
Here is a list of ships announced to under construction. Several DDGs and SSNs and 3 CVNs (including The Doris Miller CVN 81). No cruisers. Maybe they are being phased out in favor of destroyers. Also, once a warship is mothballed, it's finished. linkYes, the only country building cruisers now is China, the Type 55 which they call destroyers, but NATO calls them cruisers because that's what they are. |
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