Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[SanAndreasX]

Dulfite said:

How is a cruiser class ship the flagship of the Black Sea Russian fleet. Do they not have aircraft carriers or battleships in that fleet?

I'm having my original noob question up even though I found the answer before posting, due to having learned something. Apparently nobody uses battleships anymore. And I guess the black sea fleet wouldn't need aircraft carriers since the sea is located very near Russian land.

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Me having learned something - 1

Battleships pretty much died with World War II. They were an expensive waste of money that failed to fulfill the purposes of naval warfare or power projection. Smaller, more maneuverable ships outclassed them on the former, and carriers do a far more effective job with the latter. Carriers are also extremely expensive to build. Neither Russia nor China comes anywhere close to the carrier tonnage of the United States Navy, which is why we can project power in the Indo-Pacific region. 

The only organization that really handles battleships in this day and age is Hasbro.