{"id":92061,"date":"2019-10-21T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92061"},"modified":"2019-10-21T06:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:52:57","slug":"do-we-need-battleships-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92061","title":{"rendered":"Do We Need Battleships Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Norkiland has been rather quiet lately, until Fatty Kim da T’ird decided to get some attention for himself by letting the world know that he’s afraid of US Navy battleships.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/china-and-north-koreas-worst-fear-us-navy-starts-building-new-battleships-46277<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 In World War II, the Japanese super-battleships\u00a0Yamato<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Musashi<\/em>\u00a0each mounted nine 18.1-inch guns, the largest naval guns ever deployed, but they never sank a single American ship. In a conflict decided by naval aviation,\u00a0Yamato<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Musashi<\/em>\u00a0were used mainly as flagships and troop transports. Despite their huge armaments, they were steel dinosaurs from an earlier strategic age.<\/p>\n

But how do you sink a steel dinosaur? The answer is: “with difficulty.” It took eleven torpedoes and six bombs to sink the\u00a0Yamato<\/em>. The\u00a0Musashi<\/em>\u00a0took nineteen torpedoes and seventeen bombs. And at the time they were sunk, both ships were already limping along on patch-up repairs from earlier torpedo strikes. They may have been strategically useless, but the\u00a0Yamato<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Musashi<\/em> were almost (if not quite) indestructible. – article.<\/p>\n

Will the Navy start building new battleships? Or will we continue as is? As cool as they are, isn’t the dreadnought known as the US Navy aircraft carrier much more intimidating to a smidgeon government that can’t even keep this lights on at night in its cities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norkiland has been rather quiet lately, until Fatty Kim da T’ird decided to get some attention … Do We Need Battleships Again?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92070,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92061\/revisions\/92070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}