The Last Battleship Designs - The Good, the Bad and the Mad!

Today we take a look at the last generations of battleship designs, covering everything from nuclear missiles to rocket-assisted Tallboys and re-inventing the pre-dreadnought!
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[@Drachinifel]

Pinned post for Q&A :)

[@deeznoots6241]

Battleships only became obsolete because cowards were unwilling to use nuclear shells

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

"rocket-assisted Tallboys"

[@PalleRasmussen]

"Which was more to make the designers look too busy to be sent to the Eastern Front" made me chuckle.

[@SonOfAB_tch2ndClass]

America’s Last Battleship Designs: MORE

[@Briandnlo4]

Somewhere there’s a retired attack aircraft pilot and a retired submariner, raising a glass and each wiping away a single tear at all those targets that were never built.

[@jamesbuckner4791]

Love the phrase "instant sunshine in a can"

[@jaredthehawk3870]

I think we've set a new record for Drachisms in a single video.

[@rpick7546]

'And the entire rear gunner had to be left behind.' Which was far preferable to only leaving behind half the rear gunner.

[@paulhubsch5111]

It's a miracle nobody considered reducing earth's gravity to save weight.

[@barryclay9084]

"...was given the Old Yeller treatment" is the coolest metaphor I've heard in ages.

[@lessonslearned2569]

Me expecting typical British understatement.

[@kemarisite]

Note that a 4.125" subcaliber projectile, wrapped in a sabot and fired from an 8" gun, was actually used by USS Saint Paul to shell targets in Vietnam at about 70,000 yards.

[@The_ZeroLine]

I’ve noticed a theme among the worst of the worst classes & vessels. They tend to start with K:

[@bradenlawles7055]

5:59

[@PatchBits]

The phrase "boop the snoot of every snake they come across" is truly peak history KZbin.

[@naverilllang]

It's telling that most of these battleship designs seem to be solutions in search of a problem, with the goal being to have a battleship, not a ship to fill specific battle line role

[@admiraltiberius1989]

As a native of Louisiana, its with a mix of pride and hurt seeing that the Louisiana of the Montana class was the last Battleship authorized for construction in the US Navy.

[@Kevin_Kennelly]

17:06

[@LordStarleaf]

As soon as I saw the title, I said "Oh YEEEES" out loud. This is gonna be good.