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> The last time the US Navy built a battleship was in 1941. It was decommissioned in 1958 - the last of its kind. If you take World War II as the proof that car
by dmoy 8y ago
> The last time the US Navy built a battleship was in 1941. It was decommissioned in 1958 - the last of its kind. If you take World War II as the proof that carriers had eclipsed battleships, that doesn't seem like long at all.
WW2 was definitely un-ignorable proof that battleships were done. Imo though, given the essentially complete lack of actual success wrought by battleships in ww1, someone should have seen the light in the interwar period.
I guess I shouldn't be too harsh, at least we aren't building much else new that's bigger than a destroyer (except carriers).
- jabl 8y agoThere's been inflation. A modern destroyer is, in terms of tonnage, more like a cruiser.
- twic 8y agoReminds me of how the Soviets had ships called "aircraft carrying cruisers" that were actually aircraft carriers, so that they could sail them between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits#Aircraft_carriers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_... And the Royal Navy had "through-deck cruisers" that were actually (tiny) aircraft carriers, so that they could get them built under a government which wanted to keep defence spending under control: http://www.godfreydykes.info/THE%20PROMISED%20TWO%20NEW%20AIRCRAFT%20CARRIERS.htm http://www.godfreydykes.info/THE%20PROMISED%20TWO%20NEW%20AI...