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What a fine old warrior. She’s the last super dreadnought of the Great War, as I understand.

Hood was sunk by fluke effectively, and Bismarck’s green gunners would agree with that statement.

Ah the Mighty Hood. One of the most beautiful warships ever built and perhaps a touch more handsome than the Iowas. She’s the peak of the Great War era capital ship design as far as I’m concerned. Such a shame what happened to her, but such are the fortunes of war.

You know, I’m a Royal Navy stan, but Iowa class battleships are some of the most handsome vessels ever built.

The Old Girl has probably seen worse. She’ll pull through, no doubt. For such a small and somewhat poor country, Greece’s navy is surprisingly powerful all things considered.

I was commenting on the battleship’s durability and firepower. I am aware modern sensors and range are quite a bit superior to what was available in 1945.

WW2 battleships could take direct hits from modern missiles and keep on chugging as I understand it; meanwhile a single salvo from an Iowa class battleship would rip apart any modern warship. They stopped being cost effective, but they didn’t stop being effective.

That’s either madness or if it somehow works, genius. If North Korea can develop ballistic missile submarines of any variety, that is a dramatic increase of its power.

I like to think in another timeline the Piorun took Bismarck as a prize. It wouldn't matter if this was after Bismarck has been pounded into scrap by the British, I want to relish in the sheer spite of the Kriegsmarine war flag being pulled down and the Flaga Polski being put up in its place...

If anyone hasn't brought this one up yet, may I introduce the ORP Piorun. She was a British built destroyer loaned to the Polish Government in exile in 1940, and crewed by Poles simply too angry to die as evidenced by them attacking the Bismarck head on. The ever talented Lazerpig did a video...

Those ships are the graves of eight hundred men. You'd think the BBC would be talking about it, but I've heard nothing.

Get hold of some F-35's and you should have a semi-operable carrier in the form of HMS Ocean. Personally though, I think Brazil does have the cash for something like an Invincible class Light Aircraft Carrier (probably about a billion and a bit per ship). It would be a dramatic boost to the...

Biased Croat is biased, but they are admittedly lovely looking ships.

Here's one I don't think has been on here before. May I present the Leander class frigate, the workhorse of the Royal Navy during the Cold War. Not quite an Arleigh Burke, but a cracking ship all the same.

I...I'm not sure about that. If you look closely the main column have tripod masts instead of the cages, and the uniforms are all wrong for the US Navy. The ones further out might be some of your battleships, and I do recall that a fleet (the 8th I think) was deployed to that neck of the woods...

Less "a ship" and more "a fleet." This is the Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth, one of its two principle bases in the Great War alongside Scapa Flow. I find it to be both a majestic and painful reminder that Britannia once ruled the waves.

Ironically that problem is a good deal more easily fixed than building more warships. Beefing up wages and cutting their taxes should go some way to ameliorating the issue.

2000s? My dude, ideally I'd put it back to early 1990s levels. At the very least I'd want forty-four (four super carriers and forty other major surface combatants) hulls and sixteen attack subs (discounting the four Trident subs). It would be nice not to have to be helplessly dependent on the...

Speaking of submarines, I don't believe any of the British "Astute" class have ever been presented on here? If not, here's a lovely picture of HMS Ambush. As there are a few yankies on here, what do you make of the Royal Navy's most recent class of nuclear attack submarine? As I understand...

Speaking of the event where Britain committed naval suicide, here is a reddit artist's impression of the G3 battlecruiser. We were to build four of them, and they would essentially be "fast battleships." Roughly fifty thousand tons with nine 16inch guns and a top speed of 32 knots, she'd have...