Re: Battleships...again......

Gernot Hassenpflug ha scritto:

The problem though, at that point, is that different people measure
"profit" rather differently, nor necessarily as calculate profit for
the same group, let alone the entire country in question. In other
words, vested interests and economic interests, contract issues,
conservatism, and the lack of education of the general public, helped
to keep the battleships being built and in service decades after their
in hind-sight finished peak.

Before the peak, there was I believe no better way to bring steel and
powder to bear on a naval adversary than by building big-gun
battleships.

and now, a very interesting question, whose seems to me that wasn't ever talked here: when was this peak ?

In my opinion was during the late inter-war period, let's say ~1933/8, when the state of antitorpedo system, deck armour and AA armament was much more effective than the contemporary biplane torpedo bomber and horizontal/shallow dive bombers. Aside Taranto, the contemporary (mid-30s) swordfish never sunk an Italian BB (at Matapan there was the 1938 vintage Albacore) with a lesser peak in ~1942 (I think that if at PH was present the North Carolinas & Alabamas instad of the old battlewagon the outcome will be much less in favor of the Japanese). What put the CV above BB was the development of the monoplane torpedo and especially the dive bomber, whose IMHO reach the full maturity ~1944.

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.
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