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Old January 8th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Atgxtg View Post
Not to nitpick, but the book refers to a battleship as a modern battleship. Technically there is no such thing. Battleships have been obsolete for over 60 years and the last ones were made during WWII.

The "problem" is see is that if a Battleship is considered "modern" then someone mind think that is is concurrent with "modern" tanks. Unless you intended for a modern tank to be a WWII era tank.

Maybe late model or post-Dreadnought Battleship or just plain Battleship would be better?
The phrase "modern" as applying to a battleship was just to differentiate it from those made in the Age of Sail, just like the "modern" designator applies to a wide range of weapons and armors which originated anywhere in the last hundred or so years.
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