The discussion extends cold-launch logic to a speculative large naval gun. Missile bodies are narrower than the canisters used by systems such as Mk 57, so an 18-inch bore could in principle throw a missile clear and establish its launch angle. Such a weapon would combine artillery machinery with long-range missile employment rather than revive the battleship unchanged. The learning value lies in seeing how an old hull form might return because of a new launch function, not nostalgia for armour and gunfire alone.
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Gun-launched missiles and a modern battleship-like hull
A very large gun could act as an angled missile launcher, suggesting one route by which a battleship-like surface combatant might return.