Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "MN Dunkerque - Guide 040 (Human Voice)" video.

It's probably the steepest learning curve of any significant navy in the 20th century. Unfortunately, by the time they actually got battleships right and produced some fine designs, the entire battleship concept was outdated.
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Well, they're another of those 1930s/1940s capital ship classes that were rendered obsolete on launch by naval aviation. Doubly bad because the expansion of the Marine National was arguably a much worse waste of the French national defence budget than the Maginot Line.
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Really, WWII era BBs in general. Great case studies in how to fail at naval procurement and end up with a bunch of powerful but pointless ships.
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@KJAkk Please re-read what I wrote. I didn't write anything that contradicts that video.
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@Balmung60 Except they were obsolete upon launch and should never have existed.
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Balmung60 Even with the limits of naval aviation in the late 1930s, carriers still had a massive edge over battleships in that their superior range enabled them to simply remain out of a battleship’s attack range (unless it’s a CVE or you’re an idiot and sail your carrier towards the enemy a la Glorious). This is the single biggest reason battleships were replaced by carriers-the battleship could not attack the new capital ships. And the entire justification behind battleships existing was sea control through combat with other capital ships; they could do other things, sure, but they were not the best available options (tactically and/or strategically) for any sort of supporting role. Once carriers took away the primary fleet unit role in the 1930s (though nobody knew that yet), there was no reason for any new battleships to enter service.
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@Excalea ...what?
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Big-gun units are NOT cost-effective carrier escorts. Removes the whole point fo the big guns.
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To be fair, how many battleships actually fought a real battle in WWII?
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