[PAR35]

Battleships are obsolete.

Good thinking, 70 years ago.

A modernized battleship might be the only thing that could survive the current generation of anti-ship missiles. Everything else is just a target.

[.44 Special]

Sorry, but we no longer have the rolling mills of the size required to produce the armour plate for an Iowa class battleship.

[Reily]

The problem with anything the size of a battleship ( or carrier!) is the keel. I don't think modern torpedoes strike the ship, I think they go under and explode breaking the keel, breaking the back of the ship. The ship no longer has the "structural soundness " to stay afloat & fight. I am not by any means a naval architect but it seems to me a radically different design approach would be needed. Of course maybe I am all wet on this!🤣