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Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "HMS Revenge - Guide 120" video.
Same here and well the original ship this HMS Revenge was named after had a rather more colourful career haha, check out his video on the Elizabethan galleon of the same name
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I don't know about the whole concept being obsolete exactly being as so many other countries still had them too, including much more modern ones built in the time since, but depends how you look at it; yes aircraft carriers were already starting to take their place in importance overall but tell that to HMS Glorious
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@bkjeong4302 yeah but so long as all the major powers DID think that way and so long as a combination of luck and human error COULD still leave completely outmatched ships having to face 15" guns or bigger, the battleships were still worth having, as I see it. Oh air attack or submarines could bring one down more surely than the guns of a fellow battleship any day of the week, no question, and many of course WERE lost that way, but they or their destroyer & cruiser escorts also could deal with those threats under the right circumstances, and if somehow a German surface raider evaded all that kind of thing and came across a convoy without a battleship of it's own to fight them off they'd be like a wolf in a field of sheep (well unless, granted, the destroyers in the convoy decided to suicidally bravely attack a ship with an order of magnitude more size, armour and firepower which seems to have happened surprisingly often)
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