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Do they still use battleships today?
The growing range of naval engagements led to the aircraft carrier replacing the battleship as the leading capital ship during World War II, with the last battleship to be launched being HMS Vanguard in 1944. Many World War II-era battleships remain in use today as museum ships.
Why don’t we use battleships anymore?
Originally Answered: Why don’t we have battleships anymore? As said in other answers, they became obsolete and they were expensive to build and crew and weren’t that accurate. The Iowa class required 2000 crew give or take and had a max effective range of 39km. .
Are there any modern battleships that are still in service?
The closest thing to Battleships that is still in service, however, is the Kirov-class Battlecruiser in the Russian Navy. They have 1 active ship, 1 in refitting and 2 laid-up.
Not everyone who talks naval warfare entirely agrees with mothballing the biggest guns of the American Navy, but there’s a reason the old battleships are gone – and a reason they’re never coming back. There was a time when ship-to-ship fighting was the way of war on the world’s oceans.
Will battleships ever return to the field?
Second, the battleships would return to the field just as firepower is transitioning from being gunpowder-based to electricity-based. The ship will need all the power it can get to power the new generation of weapons systems that will go onboard.
What should be done with the Iowa-class battleships?
The Iowa-class battleships will remain museum pieces for the foreseeable future. Still, if the will and the funding were there, there are some very interesting things that could be done with them that would neatly patch holes in the U.S. Navy’s force structure—particularly the ability to fight and sink enemy ships.