This is my latest attempt at starting a fight. I don't think this subject with be quite so....entertaining.... Anyhow, Battleships, specifically the Iowa class bad boys; do you think they have a place in today's Navy?
I think they do. There is no more economical and devastating way to deliver a message to a littoral target than a BB. 16" guns, for when you care to send the very best! During the first Gulf War the Iraqi's lived in fear of the Missouri's big guns.
Besides, they just LOOK cool, and really, when it comes to intimidating the bad guys, looking cool is 90% of the job.
I would never want to be a SWO unless i could be on an Iowa class.
learn more about them here: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/bb-61.htm
Thoughts?
I think they do. There is no more economical and devastating way to deliver a message to a littoral target than a BB. 16" guns, for when you care to send the very best! During the first Gulf War the Iraqi's lived in fear of the Missouri's big guns.
Besides, they just LOOK cool, and really, when it comes to intimidating the bad guys, looking cool is 90% of the job.
I would never want to be a SWO unless i could be on an Iowa class.
learn more about them here: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/bb-61.htm
Thoughts?