I read somewhere on FR that the steel used to make the armor plate couldn’t be re-created/built again; the secret had been lost...
True?
Not true?
No secrets.
We just don’t have the industrial capacity anymore...
I don’t think there is any secret to it but I have read that there is not a single steel mill left in the world which could produce battleship armor.
I guess they would have to start from scratch and build a mill first.
I was working on VLS at the time - we were told they could not find a crane capable of removing the turret - which was essential to make the concept work.