[sarge83]

A heavy cruiser with two triple 8 or 10 inch forward gun turrets and the mid and stern areas packed with various missiles would do the trick rather than go full battleship. You get armor, you get speed, you get long distance hitting power, AA capabilities and you can stand off shore and pound your enemy with shell fire as well.

[WayneS]

Unfortunately, I think the USS Newport News may have been scrapped.

[bravo whiskey]

A heavy cruiser with two triple 8 or 10 inch forward gun turrets and the mid and stern areas packed with various missiles would do the trick rather than go full battleship. You get armor, you get speed, you get long distance hitting power, AA capabilities and you can stand off shore and pound your enemy with shell fire as well. got to Singapore. buy a dozen 300,000T VLCCs that are just sitting there. Battleship armor the entire stern. fill the outer tanks with fuel or water. plenty of room for a couple of big guns and lots of VLS with AAW, Anti-ship, Land attack, and ASW weapons. won't look like warship but will act like one. don't need to sink the bad guy. an FAE (fuel air bomb) will strip every electronic array from a cruiser. turns a KARA class (dating myself) into an 8000T target.