For Kuwait, the last combat use of the 16 inch naval rifles, the BBs had small aircraft
drones which did the spotting, correcting the fall of the shells. Pretty soon, when the
drone flew overhead, the drone feed image was of Iraquis running out of their bunkers with hands
up, surrendering to the drone. They had learned what happens when the 16" shells
start arriving, just after that kind of drone scouted the area.
I am not sure of the range at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, southern portion in the Surigou
Strait, but at that one, the US old slow battlewagons sunk at Pearl Harbor , then refloated
and rebuilt, got their much deserved revenge.
They 'crossed the T' of the Japanese fleet, and using radar ranging at night, absolutely
slaughtered them in a few minutes of concentrated shellfire from BBs, CBs and some
from the DDs (destroyers) who were in range, on the sides. Witnesses said that the shells
caused a slight air glow with their passage at night and the shells, mostly invisible at the
start of their journeys started becoming a visible reverse fountain of glow, all diving down
into a small area as many ship's shells arrived on the same target area.
You really, really did not want to be there.
Bill