A group battle shows that massed firepower belongs inside a wider structure of reconnaissance, escorts, and protection against air and torpedo threats. Five simulated Montanas against three Yamatos illustrate the construction advantage the United States expected to bring to a fleet action. Even this squadron test omits carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and the interactions among their separate fights. The Dido class provides a concrete example: its rapid-firing 5.25-inch battery was well suited to engaging destroyers. Real outcomes depended on how supporting arms found, screened, damaged, or exposed the opposing capital ships, not just on the battleship gun table.
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Capital ships inside a whole fleet system
Fleet combat combines battleships with carriers, cruisers, destroyers, air strikes, and torpedo attacks rather than isolated capital-ship duels.