Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
You either have a strange idea of what's "serious" or there's a lot of naval history for you to catch up with.

The so far final engagement with more than one ship on either side was in 1973, and it was a very interesting one.
I find the Battle of Latakia to be small potatoes in terms of naval conflict. The Israeli corvettes run about 1000 tons in displacement and are less than 300 feet long. By comparison, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer has ten times the displacement and is about twice as long. The USS Missouri displaced 45,000 tons at almost 900 ft of length, and a WWI Koenig class battleship was about 26,000 tons and 575 ft. So, I guess my use of serious irelates to a combination of the number of vessels involved and their size.