mr peters addresses the trump plan for battleships. perhaps someone aught to help him with subjects he hasn't focused on, like history and law. any large vessel will be an instant target for unavoidable missiles;

Maybe someone should tell Trump that battleships are history.

Literally.

They became obviously obsolete some 84 years ago, when carrier-based Japanese airplanes sank several of them at Pearl Harbor. Those, of course, were literally sitting ducks. And they were all old battleships, dating back to WW I.

But the German battleship Bismarck was state of the art when she was crippled while maneuvering out in the open ocean, firing her main and secondary armament futilely at slow-flying WW I-era biplanes sicc’d at her by the pursuing British. One of these rickety old airplanes dropped a torpedo that struck the Bismarck’s stern and crippled her by jamming her rudders. All she could do after that was turn in a wide circle. The British fleet that was chasing her caught up and methodically blasted Bismarck into a smoldering hulk..........more............