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A battleship is a type of warship armed with heavy guns, and with metal armor since the late 1800's. The navies of the world dispensed with the battleship after World War 2 in favor of the carrier, and the missile-armed cruiser, destroyer, and frigate, but the US Navy has brought battleships back on occasion a few times since for heavy bombardment of shore targets. In the last five centuries, battleships seldom fought each other as they were intended to fight, but the threat they presented gave certain coutries immense leverage in times of war and peace.

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