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by BlueTemplar 2056 days ago
Because these days a battleship is mostly a very expensive missile practice target.
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And there were times countries had lines of battle of these missile targets spanning the horizon - imagine that! :)

Somehow these just look so much more elegant than just spamming more bombers and nukes. Maybe because they usually only caused death of the sailors crewing them and other warships in battle rather than city populations like bombers and nukes often do ? (Well, unless you live in Yarmouth or on the River Plate.)