[RayChuang88]

Actually, one thing that will make the battleship obselete the the arrival of high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) that can deliver precision-guided weapons from far away. The Predator armed with the Hellfire missile is only the very beginning; we may see UAV's derived from the X-45 and X-47 research programs that can drop a lot PGM's such as the little bombs from the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) system.

[Prod Convert]

unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's)

That's true, and the actual ground combat will be increasingly between remotely-controlled or (shudder) autonomous machines.