[ExI] Legendary Battleship was diamandis commentary

[Jason Resch]

Not entirely relevant to this conversation, but I thought this was
interesting:

https://youtu.be/pHk7uow62kk

This video did a simulation and cost analysis between using a modern
destroyer with guided missiles vs. using a WW2 era battleship in drone
defense.

It cost ~$300,000,000 in missiles to defend against 100 cheap drones, but
it only cost ~$5 for the gun-based battleship to do the same.

Jason


On Wed, Jun 3, 2026, 4:23 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> >...Reminds me of that tale of a Vietnam-era heavy shore bombardment - not
> just bombardment of what was on the shore, but essentially of the shore
> itself - that reportedly got summarized in a headline as, "The New Jersey
> Sinks an Island".
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> The concept of bombardment improved continuously until it was no longer
> needed.  The world is quite unlikely to ever again see big guns used in any
> significant way.  My hope is that the same fate will obviate nukes as
> well.  It will be all about precision and software.  A battleship need not
> be large to do what it needs to do.  But it could have a very large escort
> vehicle along to draw fire.  We don't know what the naval engineers are
> doing.  They like it that way.
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> spike
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