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> I mean, if you put guns instead of planes on a modern aircraft carrier you'd have a battleship that's a hell of a lot bigger than any battleships in WWII. T
by entropie 8y ago
> I mean, if you put guns instead of planes on a modern aircraft carrier you'd have a battleship that's a hell of a lot bigger than any battleships in WWII.
This is not true. The biggest battleship bought was the yamato
> Length:
> 256 m (839 ft 11 in) (waterline)
> 263 m (862 ft 10 in) (overall)
The biggest CV (aircraft carrier) right now should be the Nimitz class with
>Length:
> 317m
which seems to emphasize your statement, but, battleships are not versatile and battleship development pretty much stopped after WWII. The germans had propsals of the H-class battleship, with a total length of the H-44 of 345m.
- daveguy 8y agoI wasn't saying that battleships are a good strategic choice to develop, just that you can't "easily calculate why its impossible to build a battleship beyond a certain size". It is possible, it's just not strategically advantageous. Just like throwing more compute at a neutral network isn't going to make general AI. The diminishing returns comes with how brittle their learning and representations are.
- nunya213 8y agoI'm not a MechE but I don't see why it would be hard to show that past a certain size steel can no longer support the structure of a ship.