battleships

America's ability to project force in the littorals is worse-off for not having maintained battleships in the arsenal.

Supposedly, the loss of the battleships was not prevented, as the Navy knew they were useless in modern warfare.

The original Dreadnought really defined the class, and for a while battleships were known as Dreadnoughts.

Think about it, you think the American public would fund searching for WW2 Japanese battleships?

Manned combat aircraft are becoming dinosaurs for much the same reasons as battleships did.

For those who care about such things, there were a number of carriers converted from battleships/battlecruisers or cruisers used in WW II.

Moronic article that seems to think that comparing apples to battleships somehow makes sense.

Generals/Admirals always prepare for the last war, and ground attack fighters are about as useful as battleships, carriers, and horse cavalry in 2015.

It was only a few years later that we were lobbing those vertical battleships into space.

Also, battlecruisers really were distinct from battleships in that they lacked armour.

But consider that these battleships once fired on Americans, helped enslave Asia.

Didn't they say the same thing about swords when guns were invented, about infantry when artillery was invented, and about battleships when aircraft carriers were invented?

Germany managed to build their pre-WW2 "pocket battleships" as battlecruisers under the terms of the Washington Treaty, but they really were battleships.

Not just a battleship, one of the two famous Japanese "Super-battleships", pride of the Japanese navy, with the biggest guns ever fitted on a warship.

Pretty ironic that the subheading of the article says, "They could simply become the next battleship." Battleships would be an awesome asset today if we hadn't scrapped them.

It's true that the battleship nomenclature was used before the Dreadnought, but only by 25 years, and as soon as the Dreadnought came out those older ships were referred to as "pre-Dreadnought battleships".

Battleships are expensive, with little flexibility for the types of missions they can do.

It´s just a museum, were you can visit the old fortress and a coastal artillery battery from the beginning of sXX that used the only Vickers 385/45 remaining from the times of the first world war (huge cannons that were also mounted on Battleships).