No not totally obsolete, just unable to operate without aircover.
Battleships did good work as mobile artillery support for amphibious landings as well as massive AA platforms to protect fleets from air attack. They also were excellent protection for aircraft carries against potential surface to surface engagements.
That’s all true but the author put “Fact:” in the headline and that’s all that matters :-)
> No not totally obsolete, just unable to operate without aircover. <
Right. Battleships were on the way out even in the 1920s. But that sunken battleship had no air cover, and no manned AA guns.
To your point, battleships were so obsolete that a couple were taken out of mothballs for both the Vietnam war and the Gulf War.
People like to overstate things. Battleships could be destroyed by subs, aircraft, and other battleships but they had their role. The big guns could prep a beach for a landing with shells larger than typical aerial bombs. The big Mo had the honor of accepting the Japanese surrender.
That's why President Reagan brought them back in the '80's.
Quite true. Moreover, when a large, organized force of gunships approach, carriers must flee. At close quarters, gunships beat carriers because carriers have minimal guns and need security and hundreds of miles of maneuvering room to launch and retrieve aircraft, their main weapon system.
New Jersey did good work in the Gulf in 1991. There was, of course, no air threat due to the Iraqi AF all having been blown up or run off to Iran.