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MikufanThey are cool but sadly very vulnerable to airplanes and submarines.
They are basically sea based mid range artillery
Longest range cannons we had while they were in service, but yeah, rockets and such go further. Would have been interesting to see what partially self-guided and rocket-assisted shells in Battleship size could manage though.
I think the highest range Canon my country had was The Gustav, with accuracy just barely high enough to hit somewhere within a city.