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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by gozur88 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:01AM (#14016489)
> Battleships were effective in several Pacific surface battles against the Japanese Navy...

Only because neither the US nor the Japanese had carriers in those engagements. The writing was on the wall when the Brits crippled the Italian gunship fleet with a single obsolete aircraft carrier in 1940.

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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by foldr on Sunday April 02, 2017 @06:43AM (#14016698)
Pedantic correction: battleship, not gunship.
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Re:The F-35 still has a long way to go by gozur88 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:29PM (#14018292)
The reason I said "gunship" is there weren't just battleships in that fleet. But there were no aircraft carriers.
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