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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] [QUOTE] No, the Iowa class are not obsolete. They are just useless nowadays. When's the last time you saw two ships duking it out with guns or even missiles? Even for shore bombardment, do you really need a million dollar a day battleship doing what two smaller and cheaper ships can do? Did the navy really need those 16" guns? [/QUOTE]Well, leaving aside the liklihood of missiles being used as the primary ship to ship weapon in any future fleet engagement (assuming air launched ones don't finish them all off first), the primary purpose of the Iowas is shore bombardment, which does need missiles. The guns are of less use but can still be very effective; during Vietnam, the guns destroyed a number of targets that aerial bombardment had been unable to destroy. Still, that doesn't mean they couldn't have just mounted them in monitors. Basically they're for impressing the natives. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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