That last generation of battleships is probably the acme of brute-force yet precision engineering - at least the traditional kind of engineering.
We had a prof in the '90s, on sabbatical from Kettering. While he wasn’t doing steel things in our steel research center, he gave talks on his hobby: the 16" guns. Of course it is doable with resources, but nobody on earth currently can make even one. It would have been cool to work a firing solution to lay siege on Boulder, just within range.
That analog computer was good enough to live on to the class’ end in the 1990s. No batteries required, no BSOD, no “waiting for updates…”
