[tarawa]

I definitely must disagree with you on this. When the nations of the world stopped building battleships, they also stopped building weapons to destroy them. If you took a battleship through the Gulf and got hit by a mine or an Iranian Kilo-class decided to try and put a torpedo into the side, all you would need to do would be to call "sweepers". There's not a whole lot that those anti-ship missiles can do against it either. And if you think a BB would have problems with those threats, you ought to have seen what a little Exocet missile can do to those little thin-skinned ships we're driving around in now.