Key Points
Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts
Experts described it as a “prestige project,” a “bomb magnet” and said that “this ship will never sail.”
Even if it were technically feasible, the cost of building the battleship would be prohibitive.
This thing is getting a proper announcement on Monday, right?
I’m actually really curious to see what the Navy thinks the role and function of a modern battleship should be.
Especially with the designs coming out of China focusing on missile and especially drone launching capabilities, I wonder if ONR will go the same way or if they have a different vision for the future of capital warships.
The article mentions the Navy saying it wants to focus on distributing naval assets across many smaller vessels, and that seems far more sound in an era where an autonomous naval drone can pack enough punch to take down a massive vessel and can be launched in swarms. I’m not sure what the value of massive vessels are in a world where that exists. Would it be capable of launching its own drone fleet of screening ships? Is it a massive EWAR platform? Does it even have guns? I dunno. I wanna see though.
You know he just decided that “we should have battleships” because he doesn’t know why we don’t, and if he doesn’t know why, then there must be no reason.
A coral reef, probably. There’s a reason battleships aren’t made anymore. Moron might as well be boasting were going to make the biggest bestest most bigliest Ironclads the world has ever seen.