Keep in mind that we once had many battleships in the fleet. They were rendered obsolete by the airplane.
Battleships are very fat targets in this age.
Bismarck and Musashi were eventually sunk by bombs. Then there was the near-successful attempt sinking USS Cole reflecting the potency of asymmetric warfare, and of course current drone technology which, if Ukrainian boat drones are able to sink large Russian missile cruisers, what more with a battleship about the size of an Iowa?
He’s in it mainly for the belief he wants to show a bigger e-peen.
Well maybe they should make them so they’re not magnets for bombs? Perhaps use a different non-magnetic metal? /j
They keep going back to the past … might as well go all the way back to the age of wooden Galleons and sailing ships
Wait…that would be badass though…
The obvious answer is to spray ocean water all over the boats because magnets don’t work when they get wet (according to Mango Mussolini.)