If you thought that the golden age of naval combat came to an end 200 years ago, then clearly somebody forgot to tell the national navies of today, as a wave of stateof-the-art, armed-to-the-teeth battleships are currently emerging from shipbuilding yards around the world with a singular aim in mind: total domination of the seas.
From the brand-new and brutal Type 45 destroyers being pushed out of British dockyards, through to the almost sci-fiZumwaltclass battleships emerging in the USA, and on to the cruising carrier vessels sitting like small islands in Earth’s oceans, battleships are being produced en masse and to a more advanced spec than ever before.
Far from the basic heavyweights of bygone centuries, required simply to go toe-to-toe with each other in a deadly game of broadsides,…
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History of War Book of Combat Machines (Digital) - 1 Issue, History of War Book of Combat Machines 2016