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I presume in an actual combat situation, aforementioned unfortunate sub would then get swarmed by the fleet's frigate escort, along with attached submarines? In the future I could definitely perceive submarines acting as the scout and screening force for the fleet, perhaps even skirmishing with...

I wouldn't dispute the might of the US Navy, but I'd disagree here. Fleet actions are default for naval conflict, and we are in but an intermission. Due to technological progress (which is the trademark of our age) a weapon may shake the balance of power and dominate the battlefield. Then...

18th century ships of the line are just so god damn gorgeous. There's a reason some of my favourite spaceship designs of all time hail from Disney's Treasure Planet. Can you imagine what a military sci-fi with those sorts of ships would look like? In some respects, come to think of it, I'm not...

Mind you, that's still better than nothing.

Even better! With her armour and armament of CIWS, she can draw, deal with, and take a lot of fire that could have gone for the carrier. Besides, she'd be positioned behind the initial defensive layers of destroyers and frigates as a "last line of defence" so this suits Ramillies well. That...

Helicopter pads are incredibly useful for the transfer of supplies and personnel. Should at least keep one of those. Ramillies's teeth are for anything that gets too close to its ward. As I understand it, a shell is a bit more difficult to shoot down than a missile, and a 12incher slamming...

The IJN certainly have some of the more interesting designs of the period. To look at it, it feels like it shouldn't work but does. Quite fitting of what was, in my opinion, the finest navy in the world in the 1930s. As for Ramillies's hull, she'd have something not too dissimilar to HMS...

And a very fine looking vessel to boot.

Right, so I came up with this as something of a "dare" to myself: the idea of a big gunned ship in modern warfare and what its place would be. After a bit of brainstorming, I came up with this trainwreck as a class of ship for the Royal Navy. Hopefully you should find it vaguely interesting if...