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Nope. Look at any high end modern warship. If i told you to put a circle on all sensors and antennas on the picture, it would take a long time, and the picture would be hardly recognizable. Can you imagine the mechanical complexity of making all that telescoping? Now don't forget to ensure that...

Kinda, to a degree. But then how do you cover the antennas and armor the bridge and make fires not wreck shit? Smaller, but very heavy for their size, Iowas in cold war mod have higher draft than a Nimitz or Ford. Again, range problem. Yeah, of course a 16in shell is smaller than a fucking...

Yeah, but the devil is in the details. A battleship can survive these missiles, but chances are it will be blind and crippled, like any other ship hit by them. Meanwhile battleship guns don't have the range to compete even with cold war missiles, so it's probably not gonna get that single salvo.