U.S. Navy Battleships Would Be a Waste of Steel in a War Against China
U.S. Navy Battleships Would Be a Waste of Steel in a War Against China
The United States cannot even produce the fifteen and sixteen-inch shells that the battleships of old used to attack. And that capacity is not coming back anytime soon
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These things haven't been useful outside of floating museums and reenactments since before I was born.
Hey now, they were great for bombing the shit out of small countries that had no serious militaries. You just park one of these bad boys next a country like Iraq and then do a genocide with impunity.
The last battleship was decommissioned in 1992
It was recommissioned for to bombard Iraq, and they still blew up a gun turret by being idiots and pinned it on a dead guy for allegedly being gay.
the worst part is they could easily have just said it's been a while since we last operated a battleship and the people who knew are gone so there's a learning curve, and that would have been a plenty acceptable excuse.
They increased the powder and also had issues with the powder increasing in pressure as it aged. They pinned it in a gay guy because surely the manufacturer or command that directed them to change the loading couldn't be at fault