Turnip is still trying to live in the 50s. Apparently no one has bothered to tell him that they now have killer battleship hypervelocity missiles. Even worse, China is producing weapons of war, including these missiles, at greater volumes than we can, given their ready access to rare earths and cheap labor, and have been doing so for some time.

I had read an article of the military running a hypothetical test of an invasion of Taiwan. One of the issues this test ran into as a negative, was that China had so many backups in quantity reserves that they could overwhelm ship defenses by saturation missile flights with plenty remaining to for redos should first attempt fail. The test also predicted we would win such a war but with massive losses.

The battleship has had a long run of being a fortress on the sea. Every time it's demise was predicted by obsolescence, new weapons or tactics helped continue it's reign as king of the sea. With the extended range of these hyper missiles, battleships stand a huge chance of being sunk, long before they are in effective fighting range; same with carriers.