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[GK .Dundas]

Neither are tanks. Remember that debacle?

Which time?
Canada's had this debate at least twice once in the early 1970's and at the beginning of this century.
AVGP meet MMEV .
Mind you, at least we got some use out of AVGP.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Funny you would say that. A few years ago there was discussion on here about guns and that they were past their time. I guess we should be building fast cruisers and or battle ships with lots of air defense assets including a but load of guns.

You really don't need a gun ......until you REALLY need a gun.
Missile and rockets are the current Shiney objects that get all the attention. But they come with a couple of limitations. Both financially and in the amount of space both above and below deck they take up.
The British were on the way to removing their deck guns they competed for space with other systems and it was felt that in the future there'd be no need for such old fashioned foolishness.
And then the Falklands war happened and they began relearning all sorts of painful truths and not just the ones involving shipboard artillery.

I think the manufacturing and logistics behind it would agree with you as well. Its much easier and cheaper to produce shells and charges than it is to produce missiles.