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To: Sir Napsalot

The big battleship existed to deliver massive ordnance over long distances. The end began in WWII, and now are so many other ways to deliver massive ordnance now, that role of the battleship is finished. Plus - it is a huge, expensive target for supersonic anti-ship missiles that nearly every tinpot dictator possesses now.


11 posted on 01/06/2014 1:24:37 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I wonder how effective those missiles would be. They are designed to go through the thin skin of a modern ship.


73 posted on 01/06/2014 2:35:13 PM PST by dangerdoc (I don't think you should be forced to make the same decision I did even if I know I'm right.)
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