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To: PAR35
And let's not forget that the top gun in the navy has grown from those puny 16 inchers to the powerful 5 inch guns.

It's the age of the Carrier now. Battleships with 16 inch guns are obsolete. Equip them with cruise missiles and you have a different story, but ship-to-ship artillery showed itself to be a failure in WW II sixty-odd years ago. The Japanese battlewagons with 18 inch guns were sunk by submarines and aircraft without ever bringing their massive arms to bear.

49 posted on 06/10/2007 9:51:53 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
but ship-to-ship artillery showed itself to be a failure in WW II sixty-odd years ago. The Japanese battlewagons with 18 inch guns were sunk by submarines and aircraft without ever bringing their massive arms to bear.

And battleships with 18 and 16 inch guns sank the carrier USS Gambier Bay and its escorts armed with 5 inch guns and torpedos.

50 posted on 06/10/2007 11:10:42 PM PDT by PAR35
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