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Iowa-Class Battleships: Could They Make the Ultimate Comeback in 60 Days?
« on: November 04, 2024, 07:15:23 am »

Iowa-Class Battleships: Could They Make the Ultimate Comeback in 60 Days?
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What You Need to Know: The notion of reactivating battleships like the USS New Jersey may spark nostalgia, but it’s strategically outdated. Popular Mechanics recently speculated about a 60-day revival plan, but battleships lack the long-range strike capacity required for modern warfare dominated by anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) systems and hypersonic weapons.
 
-Besides the prohibitive reactivation costs and human capital demands, battleships require extensive maintenance and outdated shells. Instead, the U.S. Navy should focus on cost-effective, easily replaceable assets like unmanned systems and hypersonic technologies.

-Prioritizing these modern systems offers greater strategic advantage in a battlefield that increasingly values distance and technological efficiency over armor.

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Re: Iowa-Class Battleships: Could They Make the Ultimate Comeback in 60 Days?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2024, 07:16:14 am »
Could Ford bring back the Edsel in 60 days and call it an EV? :tongue2:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Iowa-Class Battleships: Could They Make the Ultimate Comeback in 60 Days?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2024, 09:42:07 am »
Great idea.  Put an all female crew aboard.  Order the ship to do a shakedown.  Load the guns and see if they still work.  Let's see what happens.  {full load of sarcasm}   :patriot:
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