Posted on 07/28/2021 5:32:01 AM PDT by Onthebrink
Even after the USS Missouri (BB-63) was officially decommissioned in 1992, the “battleship retirement debate” continued – with some military pundits arguing that the old battlewagons were still the best way to provide fire support for amphibious assaults as well as to other troops near shorelines. A counterargument was made that smaller warships such as the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers could provide similar support fire from vastly smaller platforms, while close air support fighters and even advanced missile systems can do the job that was once the domain of the battlewagons.
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It’s a photo of the German battleship Ostfriesland in the process of being sunk by bombs.
Was the Mitchell not just the gunship variant of the B-25?
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Close, but no cigar (right guess on subject, wrong guess on photo ;^)...
No. The B-25 was officially called the Mitchell, no matter whether it was a bomber or gunship.
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Nope. It was the name of all of the B-25’s
Generals and Admirals are always preparing to fight the last war.
Since the invention of the torpedo, battleships and cruisers have been ever more dependent on smaller ships to run screen for them. Technology is increasingly making Dreadnoughts a thing of the past.
Stationary target putting up no defense. A sitting duck. And the bombs which did hit the ship did little damage - it was the near misses that eventually ended the ship.
The AAF had to cheat to get the end result.
According to my math, 1944 wasn't 100 years ago. But the Dims say math is racist, so there's that. LOL
And 76 years ago the atomic bomb demonstrated its superiority over men equipped with small arm rifles.
But the U.S. still fields men with small arm rifles. And for good reason.
But in the movie “Battleship”, the Missouri was instrumental in repelling Alien invaders. It could take a licking and keep going. The never ships could not. So there.
Lemme set the stage...
Year: 2005
Ship: Decommissioned USS America, CV66
Mission: Sink the damn thing
After 4 weeks of bombing, torpedo and missile attacks, she was still afloat.
They had to send in a demolition team and scuttle her.
The last war ended as a one-sided nuclear (pronounced "nü-klē-ər", not "nuk-u-lar") war.
A two-sided nuclear war is probably not winnable, so the current war appears to be developing as a biological war, currently one-sided.
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