Lourish USS Iowa (BB-61). The latest US Navy was disabled in March 1992, for over 30 years
United States President Donald Trump said he was considering the return of breastfeeding to the US Navy. These powerful war ships were taken from service for decades, long after the type of naval combat for which they had been designed to have fallen into disuse.
The arrests were sea giantsstrongly armored and armed with powerful deck cannons, built to face other war ships in direct battles.
During the two world wars they dominated the oceans, but by the end of the cold war they were already completely obsolete. The last one of the US Navy was deactivated in the early 1990shaving fired his cannons in combat for the last time during the Gulf War.
On the morning of Tuesday, during a high-level summit with military heads at the base of the Quantum Naval Marines in Virginia, the US President, Donald Trumpput on the table the possibility of bringing back to US Navy once formidable floating fortresses.
“It’s something we are really considering”Said Trump, quoted by.“ The concept of battleship, with 15 centimeters massive steel sides, no aluminum… aluminum melts just looking at a missile approaching. No, no ships are made like those. ”
Each laptop was equipped with 406 mm cannonscapable of firing projectiles of almost a ton, providing an overwhelming fire power.
Trump recalled, the first -leather of the Iowa class, as well as 1954 documentary about World War II. Iowa was commissioned in 1943 and disabled in 1990, having been in the reserve fleet until 2011. In 2012 it was converted into a museumbeing anchored in Los Angeles.
“I look at these ships, accompanied by their fresher, and I think: nothing could stop them,” said Trump. “Some will say it is outdated technology. I don’t know, I don’t think it’s outdated when I see those cannons”.
“As Artillery ammunition are much cheaper than the missiles, ”said Donald Trump.
The United States failed to build armatures toafter World War II and, at the beginning of the Cold War, began to bet on ships equipped with missile launch systems capable of reaching targets hundreds of kilometers away.
Some of the existing arrests were temporarily reactivated For coastal bombardment missions, or adapted to receive modern weaponry. Still, Last naval battle decided by artillery fire It took place in World War II.
With advances in the naval war brought by aircraft carrier, submarines and long-range missiles-more effective, versatile and lethal-the arrests have become quickly obsolete. In addition to high costs and numerous crews, the modern naval strategy has no longer contemplate ships of large caliber.
Currently, the eight remains in the US are disabled and serve as Museum ships in several cities.
In the face of future conflict scenarios, as a possible war with China, US military personnel consider that the naval forces will be mainly under the intense fire of missiles and exposed to new threats surface and submarines.
In these contexts, they argue that survival depends above all on advanced systems of Defense against missiles and drones – Something for which the arrests, at least in their original design, offer no effective response.
In fact, they consider military analysts, this type of system already made obsolete the ships that made the armor obsolete: According to the Pentagon, the most recent Hypersonic Missiles of China they can .
