Originally posted by Ladiesman^
The whole thing with ships never coming anywhere near each other is kinda dull, and doesn't seem quite useful.
Seemed rather useful in nearly every conflict since WW2 that had a naval component...
Bismarck - an old, near-retirement torpedo bomber crippled its steering gear, allowing British warships to close on it.
Toronto - British carrier aircraft effectively gutted the Italian navy
Pearl Harbor - Japanese carrier aircraft knock the crap out of the ships and other equipment based on Oahu, crippling the US Pacific fleet
Lexington - put out of action by Japanese bombers, later sunk
Yorktown - crippled by Japanese airpower, the hulk sunk later by a Japanese sub
Yamato - sunk solely by US airpower
Musashi - sunk solely by US airpower
Most of the carriers of the IJN - sunk solely by US airpower
Oh, and while we're at it, why don't you ask some of the resident Brits how useless those Argentine Mirage fighters and their Exocet missiles were, during that little scuffle around the Falkland Islands almost 2 decades ago.