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a newbie, so be gentle with me


It's not such a mad idea


The big buzzword for US naval warfare is Littoral warfare, fighting in the narrow waters that are close to the coast, ie good old fashioned naval bombardment.

In the past this was done by monitors - typicly the biggest turret you could get with the biggest gun you could get from a scrapped batteleship and placed on a shallow draft hull. Ger right up to the beaxh and blow the sh*t out of anyone stupid enough to get close to it on the land.



In the 1930's the French built this



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