Battleships, such as the huge fleet of Yamato and Musashi in World War II Japan, would ultimately face two major issues. First, through technological breakthroughs, better weapons will become available in smaller, more practical and efficient packages. Secondly, this technology would be incompatible with the warship’s historical purpose: prolonged and devastating combat.
Just as the advent of cannons made knight armor and fortified castles largely obsolete, so the introduction and refinement of such ICBMs – the first weapon of the United States was the SM-65 Atlas, developed by the US Air Force and first used in 1959 – meant The weapons of battleships, while certainly powerful, are becoming less practical to use, and their armor less effective against the likes of these new threats.
Maneuverability, stealth, and advanced threat detection systems have become a major military focus as decades pass and technology allows. However, the larger the ship, the more expensive and less practical it is to provide an array of defenses, and more sophisticated attacks from a group of aggressors will see a massive warship make a huge target.
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