>>13184655there's a caveat to that however, militaries will never show their entire hand
they'll always keep something in reserve, to ensure that if war breaks out anyway, they'll be able to throw something totally unexpected at the enemy to knock them off balance
see: the IJN Yamato
despite it being the flagship of the IJN, and being regarded as the spirit of japan incarnate, they took extreme efforts to keep the specs of the ship a secret, so that when it came to war with the US, the 40-50k ton ship the US expected to fight would instead be a surprise 70k ton 18in gunned monstrosity
