<div dir="auto"><div>Not entirely relevant to this conversation, but I thought this was interesting:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://youtu.be/pHk7uow62kk">https://youtu.be/pHk7uow62kk</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 3, 2026, 4:23 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br>
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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".<br>
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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.<br>
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