Battleship ramming and the symbolic appeal of large guns

Would revived battleships drive submarines away and restart a competition for the biggest naval gun?

The ramming analogy is rejected for deep-operating modern submarines. A separate argument attributes the symbolic appeal of large guns to their immediately visible scale.

The joke about battleships ramming submarines depends on older submarines operating near the surface. Modern submarines' greater operating depth removes the basis for treating a revived battleship as a submarine hunter. A separate argument concerns the visibility of large naval guns. Their scale is immediately apparent, whereas a missile's performance is mainly conveyed through specifications. That is offered as an explanation of the gun's symbolic appeal, rather than evidence of an effective modern ASW role.