Post War
In 1919 Scott began a remorseless but ultimately unsuccessful campaign in the Times (London) against the battleship, saying I regarded the surface battleship as dead before the War, and I think her more dead now if that is possible. The key to his prescient rationale, laid out in his autobiography, stated that although a battleship could carry about 100,000lbs of high explosive which it could project to a range of about 15 miles it was vulnerable to aircraft carrying bombs and torpedoes as well as submarines. For the same cost as a battleship, several "aeroplane-carrying" ships could be built with aeroplanes capable of projecting 100,000lbs of high explosive out to a range of 150 miles.
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