Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost'
(ronpaulinstitute.org)
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That's what the Iowa class battleships were before they were mothballed. Had the big guns and Tomahawks
As much as I love the Iowa class, there's a whole lot of design space between an old school battle ship and a design for an modern in shore fighting frigate(?).
The point is that they knew it could work, they just didn't do it because gotta spend da money.
Plus, maintenance costs are going to be vastly higher for a battleship than a frigate or a cruiser, almost regardless of what kind of weaponry it's fielding.
A classic battleship have huge amounts of armor. Modern navel engagements don't require a ship to be able to shrug off 20mm cannon fire, they require surviving a Harpoon missile.