Posted on 10/08/2021 8:58:12 AM PDT by Onthebrink
I appreciate that post as I know next to nothing about Navy stuff, though I have watched a bunch of movies. I think that I have viewed the remake of Midway at least 6 times.
Seriously though, I find it fascinating about those numbers regarding the potential damage that could be dispensed by a Battle Ship as compared to an Air Force Bomber.
Actually, I found the entire Post to be compelling reading.
Bless you.
Submarines aren’t much good for naval bombardments. Or boarding captured vessels. And when they’re “undetectable [mostly],” they also have limited radio comms, which means limited capacity to respond to changes in orders.
Yup. Submarines are for NUCLEAR war.
Battleships are for CONVENTIONAL war.
I think it would be cool to have 4 of them operating just for camel-jockey wars going on. But their range is limited to about 30 miles of shore bombardment. B52s, smartbombs, laser-guided missiles, A10s and AC130 Ghostriders have that beat. Just do a cost analysis to see which ones work better for the intended purposes.
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