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Why did AirCraft carriers replace battleships?
AirCraft Carrier benefited from the rapid advance of the Plane – speed, range, bomb-load, torpedo capabilities. Once it was clear, that Battleships were lost if alone against Attack planes, they had to be covered by Carriers to remain effective.
Why did battleships become obsolete?
Big battleships have become obsolete, because their armament became obsolete. When looking at battleships, people see the big size, the heavy armor… but that is all secondary. The reason of existence of the battleships is the guns.
Why were AirCraft carriers so important to the war in the Pacific Theatre?
Aircraft carriers played a major role in winning decisive naval battles, supporting key amphibious landings, and keeping critical merchant shipping lanes open for transporting military personnel and their equipment to land battle zones.
Why were battleships so hard to survive WW2?
At the same time, a proliferation of threats made ensuring survivability more difficult. The huge battleships of the Second World War could not survive concerted air and submarine attack, and could not punch back at sufficient range to justify their main armament.
Except for aircraft carriers, where lethality still increased with size, naval architecture took a turn for the petite. The chief surface ships of the U.S. Navy (USN) today displace less than a quarter that of the battleships of World War II. Post-WWII ships also, broadly speaking, discarded the idea of armor as a means of ensuring survivability.
What happened to the Japanese battleship Nagato?
The Japanese successfully camouflaged the ship, however, and it survived the huge air raids that sank the rest of the surviving battleships of the IJN. Nagato was on hand for the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945.
But the most important advances may come in survivability.The biggest reason to build big ships may be the promise of electricity generation. The most interesting innovations in naval technology involve sensors, unmanned technology, lasers, and railguns, most of which are power intensive.