Mechanical analog computers in battleships

[nj pheonix]

The battleship was "the" weapon (a weapon of mass destruction)
at the end of ww1.
They were on their way to extinction by end of ww2.
I know they got pulled out of mothballs and had upgraded weapons systems installed which extended their usable life.
They probably weren't completely obsolete until the 2nd gulf war where 90% of the dropped ordnance became guided.
All systems and platforms have short comings.
I suspect they'll be further shifts in the coming years

 

[Bodyblue]

Mitchell was off base. In fact it was the naval dive bomber and torpedo bomber, not the air force horizontal bomber, that were the danger to warships.

Mitchell maintained it was air power that was a threat to navel power......that was the point. And fyi, Japanese horizontal bombers did extreme damage to the battleships at Pearl Harbor in 1941. It was a horizontal bomber that sunk the Arizona.

That horizontal bombers did not do well against moving navel targets not the point. The point was air power truly sunk the battleship.

 

[Pio1980]

Mitchell was off base. In fact it was the naval dive bomber and torpedo bomber, not the air force horizontal bomber, that were the danger to warships.

Airborne assault on surface ships was relatively inexpensive, and devastatingly effective, he got that right. Floating artillery platforms and airfields still had their purposes.