[ChadGore]

Re: I would ask him to give a scenario in the current war where the battleships would have been of use.

October 3, 1993 in Somalia when the US General was denied Specter Gunship cover for his men.

16 inch guns would have mattered to the enemy that day in Mogadishu.

[Non-Sequitur]

16 inch guns would have mattered to the enemy that day in Mogadishu.

So would a tank or two. That would have required 2000 fewer officers and men and a couple billion less in expenditures.

[MikefromOhio]

16 inch guns would have mattered to the enemy that day in Mogadishu.

And about an hour into the operation that idea would have gone COMPLETELY out of the window once the first helicopter went down. Beyond that, talk about hitting an ant with a jackhammer.