• D61 [any]
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    8 months ago

    These things haven't been useful outside of floating museums and reenactments since before I was born.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Hey now, they were great for bombing the shit out of small countries that had no serious militaries. You just park one of these bad boys next a country like Iraq and then do a genocide with impunity.

      • Teapot [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        The last battleship was decommissioned in 1992

        • WashedAnus [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          It was recommissioned for to bombard Iraq, and they still blew up a gun turret by being idiots and pinned it on a dead guy for allegedly being gay.

          • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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            8 months ago

            the worst part is they could easily have just said it's been a while since we last operated a battleship and the people who knew are gone so there's a learning curve, and that would have been a plenty acceptable excuse.

            • footfaults
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              1 month ago

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