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Battleships are from a bygone age when men were men and lobbed high explosive shells at each other instead of hiding behind computer screens and turned war into a video game. So why would the US want to bring these relics of war back? To be fair, the battleship may have once ruled the seas, but the inherent limitations of ballistic artillery made them obsolete first with the wide adoption of the aircraft carrier and with the final nail in the coffin being the perfection of the anti-ship missile. When it comes to missiles and a battleship's main guns, there's just no comparison- most anti-ship missiles pack less explosive power than the big 16-inch guns of an old US battleship, but they make up for that lost firepower with extreme precision. Even with modernization upgrades done to the USS Iowa, America's last battleship to ever see combat, getting shells on target was more a game of “good enough” than actual precision. On the other hand, a missile will strike exactly where it can d