[MercyFlush]

I think the reporter meant to say ‘warship’ and not battleship.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I think the reporter meant to say ‘warship’ and not battleship.

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If the writer is really young and not a student of history, or a watcher of the History Channel 😉, he or she might have used battleship for a generic term for warship, not really knowing what a battleship was. Battleships are or course, quite obsolete.