A full broadside of the Iowa Class is a thing of beauty...
At night even moreso..when it goes from pitch black.... to dailight instantaneously.... you just cannot comprehend unless you've seen it.
THe battlewagons give the US Complete ownership of everything from the coast to 20 miles inland at will. There is no counter defense to a 16" shell.
16" combined with a remote drone for targeting, and if you can find em, you eliminate em... period.
During Iraq War I, enemy surrendered on sight to our drones... once word got around what followed. If you saw a drone, you were sure to either have a 16" barrage or a Tomahawk shortly thereafter.
Except for mines, s7rface to surface missiles, submarines, air-launched surface attack missiles, anything that can keep the battleship farther offshore.