"The 5 Most Lethal Battleships That Never Set Sail" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Sep 2015 11:04 p.m. PST |
"Battleships represented huge, long term investments of national treasure. The took a long time to design, and a long time to construct. In the complex geopolitical and technological environment of the 20th century, battleships planned did not always become battleships built. This article examines five powerful classes of battleships that never saw the sea…"
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| Generalstoner49 | 10 Sep 2015 8:17 a.m. PST |
The Montana class was totally omitted from the list. Iowa class with a 4th turret and just as fast. |
| Mallen | 10 Sep 2015 10:15 a.m. PST |
Someone got paid money to write that. |
| StarCruiser | 10 Sep 2015 6:55 p.m. PST |
"The Montana class was totally omitted from the list. Iowa class with a 4th turret and just as fast." Actually – the Montana's would have been slower by several knots. They would still have been scary to run into! |
| Charlie 12 | 10 Sep 2015 7:02 p.m. PST |
Generally, a pretty silly article. The author isn't very deep in the history and, for example, gives the Germans and Japanese waaay too much credit. And leaving out the Montanas is a very serious gaffe. |
| StarCruiser | 11 Sep 2015 7:28 a.m. PST |
Most articles like these (Greatest this or that…) are usually silly and hopelessly incomplete. |
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