Do Battleships have a futue?

[raghar]

Imagine ship with gun that could fire to orbit. Name its class Battleship and you could see future.
Stop thinking about normal chemical guns...
BTW Russian ships have 130 mm autofire guns so... it clearly shows that Batleships are uderdeveloped concept. At least now.

[Spiffor]

The future is the submarine carrier

[Odin]

Originally posted by Spiffor
The future is the submarine carrier

Whats that, as sub that carries planes or a ship that carries subs.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Berzerker
But carriers do what no other ship can, carry jets. If you could always depend on land airbases all over the world, then and only then would carriers be obsolete.

Most aeroplanes have became missile launching platforms. So you can do away with the planes and just launch them missiles.

[Ned]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


What range of ASM's are we talking here? The bigger ship launched Soviet models had ranges of a little of 300 miles, and for the most part, you trade range for payload. Launching a wave of two hundred close enough to simultanously would take about 15 good size launch platforms. (AEGIS cruiser firing TASM's, etc.) That's more firepower concentrated in a surface battle group than any navy has, and it also requires additional ships for ASW and FAD duties.

It would financially break most countries and take them years before they could put together a blue water navy like that.

What about 10 B52s?

[Ned]

I think the B52 remains the ultimate weapon, far more powerful than any ship.

[Master Zen]

They can be shot down rather easily, unlike ships...

During the Rolling Thunder campaign in Vietnam, an average of 3 B-52s were shot down per day. That was 1972...

[Sarxis]

Does the US even have any Battleships still in service?

[Zylka]

I never knew that shortsighted military thinking was rampant on poly, of all places

With the new era of flight being taken hold of by the Zeppelin-Vehicle, we have a perfect example of why modern warfare and seafaring is to take to the skies. Todays battleships will retain their turrets, only to be refitted with massive and impressive gas balloons which allows them to rise to a phenomenal ceiling of 1500 feet! From there, bombardment of any unruly Siam province comes with ease, and not even the Red Baron himself can reach the height to defend

[Skanky Burns]

The world has no ceiling.

[PLATO]

Battleship plans of the 1980's included removing the aft turrent and installing a Harrier Hanger and launch pad. Compliment was to be 10 to 12 planes.

Also, No platform on the seas today can take even a fraction of the damage a battleship could. No one manufactures that kind of Armour anymore.

The idea today is to avoid being hit by projecting protective force outwards and using point defense weapons for whatever gets through. The lack of armour allows more speed which also fits into the modern concept of warfare.

The Battleship may oneday rise again if force projection and point defense start to be overwhelmed by new attack weapons.

[Jack_www]

well carriers have replaced Battleships as the major ship in terms of sea power. Battleships are no longer usefull, and other ships can do what it can do just as good with less men and less money.

Carriers are way more power full then a battleship and can hit targets at greator distance and can be moved to almost anywhere around the world and their planes are bigger then some nations airforce.

[yavoon]

jack sorry but ur just wrong. and probably unintelligent too

[Berzerker]

Plato, the Japanese modified a couple of BB's in WW2 replacing one end of the ships armament with a shorter flight deck. Strange looking things, but I guess they worked...

[Berzerker]

Who let the troll in?