I would love to see them build a few new ones, instead of just bringing out a mothballed one. Could you imagine a modern nuclear powered battleship, with updated targeting systems, 16-inch guns, and missile systems. It would be a floating ship of death.
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I would love to see them build a few new ones, instead of just bringing out a mothballed one. Could you imagine a modern nuclear powered battleship, with updated targeting systems, 16-inch guns, and missile systems. It would be a floating ship of death.
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Being ex-Navy I’ve often thought of these things. I can’t help but see naval military might eventually, maybe quickly, becoming obsolete, if not extinct. With modern technology capable of raining nuclear havoc from space, or abilities to knock out all electronics of the target, ships on the water are no more than a giant shooting gallery. A nuclear-tipped ASROC type weapon fired from a long distance, and with stealth technology could be the underwater equivalent of a cruise missile, and at much less expense than the target it just sank.
Building more powerful ships with more and more technology at enormous expense will eventually, if nothing else, price itself out of existence. Your “Ship of Death” would be great for show and bragging rights, but I fear it would soon be merely another multi-billion dollar pile of rusting junk joining many others on Iron Bottom Sound. Future warfare may be almost unrecognizable to veterans of the past.