Hey now, they were great for bombing the shit out of small countries that had no serious militaries. You just park one of these bad boys next a country like Iraq and then do a genocide with impunity.
It was recommissioned for to bombard Iraq, and they still blew up a gun turret by being idiots and pinned it on a dead guy for allegedly being gay.
the worst part is they could easily have just said it’s been a while since we last operated a battleship and the people who knew are gone so there’s a learning curve, and that would have been a plenty acceptable excuse.