Battleships are obsolete because of the use of missles. In today's navy, any vessel can be fitted with cruise missles capable of sending accurate strikes at long distances. An attacker can easily dispatch such a vessel with the push of a button, making it difficult to protect such a large vessel and making it a high value target with huge loss of life.
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They weren't battleships, they were obsolete and redundant World War 1 destroyers, and they weren't 'given', they were lent under the Lend/Lease Agreement and had to be either returned or paid for at the end of hostilities.
No. The US Navy did not have that many battleships.
Japan had 8 battleships built as such and also 4 fast battleships which had been built as battlecruisers but improved between the wars.
six battleships
OB is the abbreviation for obsolete.