Are battleships obsolete? The last active warship I remember, was sunk during the Falklands war was

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7. The last Battleship sunk in combat was in 1945

More recently, the Iranian frigate Sahand was sunk by the US in 1988.

A couple years ago , the Ukrainians sank the Russian cruiser Moskova with land based missiles.

Despite many claims, old battleships would be quite survivable in a modern combat environment. We do not use the armor piercing bombs and airdropped torpedoes that were used against them in WW2.

The bigger problem for the modern use of a battleship is the cost, both in money and manpower, and the lack of viable targets to use them against. They're primary purpose was to fight other heavily armored big gun ships of which none exist anymore. As World War 2 advanced they were used for amphibious support and as anti aircraft platforms.

There are not many foreseeable opportunities of major amphibious operations where their guns would be useful. Their in aircraft guns are no longer effective in the modern world of jets and missiles.

To put a battleship to sea in the modern day would be very expensive, require a lot of men and not have very many missions.It can perform