[Mojave]

State of the art warships and cannons are not warships and cannons?

Amending your argument again.

And who's stopping you from building your aircraft carrier kit?

BTW:

Warship

A ship equipped with guns, for use in war
Cambridge International Dictionary of English

A government ship that is available for waging war
Princeton University WordNet

Convention on the High Seas, 1958 (article 8):
For the purposes of these articles, the term "warship" means a ship belonging to the naval forces of a State and bearing the external marks distinguishing warships of its nationality, under the command of an officer duly commissioned by the government and whose name appears in the Navy List, and manned by a crew who are under regular naval discipline.

[publiusF27]

OK, OK, would it make you happy if I told Paulsen that privately owned cannons were kept aboard "combat-ready" ships instead of warships? LOL!

And how is asking a question amending my argument, anyway?

I'm still waiting on some creditors on the carrier thing. You wanna invest?