Back then big turrets and big calibers ruels the seas, but now even with more advance technology, ship guns are becoming smaller and smaller, why is that?
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those guns had a role: long range artillery fire pretty much.
with the tech advancing to the point where most engagements take place beyond visual range, with stuff like cruise missiles advanced radars, and other long range options that role got swapped over.
ships still carry big boi guns but their roles become more about anti air and missile interception in the form of CIWS(close in weapon systems) . andevne then these larger veseels will implement these in the form of missiles aswell leaving conventional ballistics as a last line of defence.
thge other nail in that coffin came from the advacement of aircraft and the creation of the Carrier platform for them, this marked the end of the age of the battleship to where one aircraft ca nengage far beyond visual range with weapons ships of the time had no hope of stopping. by developing a carrier centirc doctrine you noew had air control as aswell as sea control fo the immediate area around the carrier’s battlegroup+ range of its aircraft.
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