[Rummyfan]

Great for a gun platform for fire support. And for launching cruise missiles. I would got out on a limb and say there will never be another naval battle like Leyte Gulf, but who knows? The Chinese are hell bent on a blue water navy...

[Vermont Lt]

I like the idea of Battleships. But I also recall the Battles of the Falklands. Exocet missiles and their ilk love Battleships too.

[Lou L]

The battle of Leyte Gulf is famous for the "crossing of the T" in which US forces caught Japanese forces in single file, transiting the Surigao Straits. We were able to pluck many of those ships off, one by one. Our ships could fire abeam; the Japanese ships could only fire ahead, and their fire was limmited. But this tactic is ancient. Ships of sail did the same thing.

With modern guided missiles and air capabilities, crossing the T, as well as having big, heavy battleships to put shells on-target is not cost-effective.

[epluribus_2]

If China gets a blue water navy and engages U.S. interests with it - it will be a submarine/air/space to surface engagement and the Chicoms will no longer have a blue water navy. It would make them feel good to be “just as strong” at sea than those nations that would “hold them down/back”. We need psychologists more than military strategists to deal with them.