One of the enumerated powers of Congress is to issue "letters of marque and reprisal" to privateers, authorizing them to attack enemy ships. Privateers were privately owned, heavily armed ships - probably one of the most powerful "weapon systems" of the 18th century. So yeah, why not a tank or bazooka, or a heavily armed ship?
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916...We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed.
We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”
Barry’s right.I’m becoming a pirate.