User blog comment:Void Samukai/The 7 key BBs in history/@comment-26482266-20160118024133/@comment-12494172-20160118185439

Wrong. Battleships are not outdated. The problem was that aircraft carriers *were* a more cost effective way to deal far more damage at a far greater range than their opponent. Now aircraft carriers themselves are being outdated.

Iowa was basically a 10,000t heavier clone of the South Dakota class fast battleships...

Bismarck was an updated clone of WWI era BB's...

KGV was a cost cutter, hardly bringing anything new.

Yamato was an heavily modernized embodinment of previous warships. What crippled it came down to it's own powerplant, and the unwillingness of Japan to surrender. It was advanced enough, that even if USA wanted to keep it for themselves, Russia would have pushed for it.

Any properly supported battleship could easily survive an aircraft attack. But "properly supported" has a pretty big price tag on it.