The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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- Jun 27, 2007
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So when did the Battleship have it's day?
What year? what event?
Would the battleship have use today?
Too expensive?
Too precious?
Too vulnerable to air attack?
Too many crew?
I am certain that the plate could still be made. They made a super gun in Sheffield in 1990 Supergun affair - Wikipedia so it could be done if anyone wanted to, but why would anyone want to?The industry that made big guns and big armour plate is gone.
So cost a fortune. So the battleships in it's true form is gone for good.
So it's lasers and ray shields I am afraid.
It proved it was POSSIABLE.The Ostfriesland proves nothing at all. Nothing at all.
So then, we need to look to WWII to see if Mitchell's theory was valid.
How many ships were sunk by bombs?
We could even go one further: how many moving ships were sunk by bombs?