Who knows with railgun tech or even partical accelerator cannons battleships may return. Also the USA ,Japan, and Germany are looking at there old battleship classes again they need something to attack the shoreline if they go to war with China and missile are to expensive complicated to waste of pounding a shore line and it's a waste of jet fuel and ammo for aircraft carriers as stated by top military officials in USA and Japan. So they may come back.

@@kuninagako9035 Shore bombardment is a thing of the past- one single truck with a Harpoon or Neptune-like missile would disable a 'battleship'. They will not return. A modern, even simple diesel submarine, would disable a 'battleship'. It was found that a well-placed smart munition, rocket or shell, is money better spent than blanketing an area destroying nothing useful. Only cluster munitions do that well anymore (delivered by air/missile/rocket). Plus, shore bombardment munitions have a history of duds, which exposes friendly in-gressing forces to ordnance that may explode later. Frigates/destroyers/cruisers are all that are needed along with submarines, carriers and amphibious assault ships. Amphibious assaults can only be made with absolute air superiority on all levels (close air support, mid-level fighter coverage, higher-level interceptors and stealth/electronic warfare/recon/anti-radiation platforms).

Exactly

Correct. Also, the USA has modernized several of the old battleships which are now in mothball storage while others are 100% decommissioned and I believe are museums.

Uummmm we do what we want!

USS Wisconsin BB-64 was last. I served 3.5 years on the USS Iowa back in the 1980s

​@icare7151 yes, all 4 Iowa class battleships are now museums

A destroyer isn’t a battle ship?? Im asking??

No, it's not. Battleship refers to a specific type of ship.

More capable than a battleship in nearly every way. Perhaps less survivable (armor), but that's because it's intended to be more evasive instead of soaking up shells.

It’s a destroyer

Warship

@@jamessullivan1262 .....or "combat ship." Same, same.

No... la HISTORIA cuenta que la palabra DESTRUCTOR se tomó de 1 Cazatorpederos de fabricación Española , el cual fue bautizado con ese nombre y PEGO TANTO ... QUE DESDE AHI EN ADELANTE SE LES LLAMO " DESTRUCTOR o DESTROYER " a todo buque ligero con cañones de 5" de tiro rápido y otros de menores calibres , muchas cargas de profundidad antisubmarinos y lanzatorpedos antibuques , para atacar a unidades mayores del porte de Cruceros y Acorazados . PD : los TORPEDEROS son diseños de fines del siglo XIX con tubos lanzatorpedos a vapor y luego por gas comprimido , con Torpedos primero de Botalón y luego automóviles de diseño Italianos ... para COMBATIR A ESTOS BUQUES PEQUEÑOS Y VELOCES ARMADOS CON UN PAR DE TUBOS LANZATORPEDOS PRINCIPALMENTE Y CAÑONES DE TIRO RAPIDO ... se creo un buque CAZATORPEDEROS que fue puliendo su diseño para inicios del siglo XX y ya para después de inicios de la Primera Guerra Mundial ... surgió la palabra DESTRUCTOR en el Buque Homónimo de la Armada Española , llamándose DESTRUCTORES a todo tipo de Buque parecido al diseño Español llamado " DESTRUCTOR" ... ( la info está en la Revista de Colección : LA MARINA de impresión en España x editorial Barcelona en 1978 )

Disrespectful, ignorant a-holes.

You have no idea what you are speaking of.

RHIB stands for rigid hull inflatable boat the navy has been using before you had internet access.

Ships are still vary hard to hit unless your in a Russian ship. The USA ships and Japan's has lasers and many other defenses against air and missile system they are even taking out drones at crazy ranges so yes ships are still vary valuable the only down side with today's ships they can't take a hit like at all there no where near what a battleship can take as punishment look at Yamato and Bismarck they toke a hell of a beating. If today's ships got hit by one shell from a battleship it's lights out your ship becomes two pieces it will break right in half

To answer your question if today's warships can take a hit the answer is no just no. They don't have armor belts or bulge armor anymore one shell or missile or even a RPG can do heavy damage to today's ships. Today's ships are vary lightweight but have vary accurate anti everything system on them and can see why farther then WW2 ships. Battleship like Iowa can take a hell of a beating even today's ships don't have the weapon to sunk a battleship like Iowa and if Iowa gets into gun range well today's ships would be in two pieces at the bottom of the ocean. But it also depends on what Iowa you where fighting if it's Missouri or Wisconsin your 110% going to die they were updated with modern tech and nuclear rounds that are 15 magatons aka Castle bravo level nukes and Wisconsin is still the fastest warships that the USA has ever built she does 42knots where today's ships do 30knots so there no running way your going die against it if your in a modern day destroyer.

Yeah, they could have poked a few holes in it so it could have done useful service as a reef somewhere. It isn't going to do anything useful floating around.

Aluminium ships and salt water have worked fine for years

@@Randallator966 Aluminum hulls?.....or just aluminum superstructure?

That’s what sacrificial anodes are for.

@@Randallator966 A big drawback to aluminum in war ships is it's lower melting point. There are many other drawbacks.

@@ryanhampson673 But it's more brittle and has a lower melting point in fires. Also isn't the weight of steel hulls an advantage as far as keeping the ship upright under all the conditions.....heavy seas and or battle damage?

Stability… Unchallenged Tyranny - what’s the difference from their perspective?

The original roles of the US Navy beginning in the War of 1812 were coastal defense from invading enemy and protection of sea lanes for commercial use. The latter role being the reason that John Adams was able to gain approval of congress for a standing (permanent) navy as opposed to the concept of privateers used during the revolution. These remain though in the modern world support of alliances is also required.

Battleships sit in a weird spot for USA, Japan, and Germany do to they are old and outdated but still vary needed. The miliary is still arguing about battleship and bring them back do to a lack of shoreline firepower that battleships bring. The top military officials all agree that missile are way to expensive to use on shoreline bombarded and aircraft carriers would just be wasting fuel and ammo on trying to soften shore landing. That's why there looking at old battleships again incase they have to attack China. Battleship shells cost almost nothing and can be built by anyone unlike missiles that have lots of special parts like semi conductors and if we can't build them we may have to rely on battleships again to fight China.