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.
the true enemy of all conservatives
i’m just surprised he hasn’t started building his
washingtonkrasnov monument [below] that is right next to washington’s girthy stately vigorous phallic protrusion.
He really is Hitler brained.
Poor guy wants to see his name on everything and the biggest boat with biggest guns would be his favorite.
Goddamn his parents should have taken him to a psych hospital
Now we just have to get him in a bunker with nowhere else to go
And make memes with funny subtitles.
If it does get made I hope it sinks faster than the Vasa
Or the Kang Kon.
Rule of law in this land now: “Trump-class” anything is coded for “kickback-funneling-class” - it’s never going to exist for it’s stated mission, only for the explicit mission of funneling money around.
Amazing isn’t it? Trump is the epitome of failure, but only at the mercy of other people. You gotta hand it to the piece of shit, he is an incredible grifter. He’s managed to convince an entire Top Three nation to let him do whatever the fuck he wants. He’s getting away with unspeakable crimes; pedophilia, rape, possibly murder… etc. The world’s worst human being running freely, in the most powerful position in the world, and a cult of personality. Just amazingly terrible.
Yup, same as it’s always been. I find solace in his big mad though:
- Wants to be beloved by all Americans; will never be loved by even half of Americans.
- Desperately wants to preserve his legacy; there is no future where his legacy isn’t tarnished.
- Craves being the richest, most successful ‘business’ man in the world; every business launched ended in failure or prosecution.
- Tries to project emotional strength and fortitudinous; late-night comedians live rent free in what’s left of his brain.
America is never recovering from this shit show.
Very likely not quite, yeah. But honestly that’s ok. The US was too important. We need a little less responsibility and a little less pull. We need a little humble dealt to us.
Imagine thinking of the US’s interference globally as responsibility
It’s going to take, minimum, 10 years to build, right? And that’s not counting any design, planning, and other ships that may be in progress at our shipyards. He’s never going to see it. So let’s just tell him we’re building it, and not.
That is what they’re going to do … but in the meantime they’ll send a shit ton of money his way for the project.
Honestly, if I was some admiral trying to protect a bunch of R&D projects in development from Trump, I’d probably wrap as many of them as I could into a pitch for a big battleship with his name on it then spend the entire budget on the technologies that are supposedly going into the ship. Put basically no effort into the ship itself, just show him concept art and maybe send him a model or something to make him think progress is being made.
What do ya reckon they are doing
Like, the navy hasn’t used battleships in decades because they are obsolete to deystroyers, that kind of obstacle?
With future weaponry they might see a come back
These extremely high powered laser weapons need large battery banks which seem to be usable as a power source for railguns too. Big boats might make sense, and with laser weapons mostly obsoleting air attacks they’d be a lot less of a sitting duck
You know Iran has AI torpedo drones, right? They’re called Valfajr torpedos.
And more exotic ideas:
Anyone actually paying attention to Iran will tell you that “bigger is better” Trump ideas are just giant floating “sink me” signs compared to fast, easy to produce swarms of smart explosives.
Yeah the next generation of serious combat will probably be significantly influenced by who has the best underwater capabilities, unless someone builds some kind of flying fortress for laser attacks and air denial
Personally, I think a “battleship” designed solely for coastal bombardment duties would be the best fit for a modernized version. A Siege Ship, I guess? Provided the artillery shells are cheap, they can be constantly lobbed with great range and power at stationary targets. This would free up expensive missiles and aircraft for tasks beyond the reach or accuracy of the artillery.
really what we need are destroyer sized drone platforms anyways.
How could a large incredibly expensive slow moving warship that’s really easy to locate and follow possibly be a bad idea? It’s not like you can quickly, cheaply, and easily cram a bunch of explosives in a few unnamed submersibles and sink those ships for a fraction of the cost, right?
“This may be an era in which the president believes the U.S. last had naval supremacy.”
What he believes is that his name needs to be plastered on something of relative permeance and might, because once he keels over he’ll be remembered as a cautionary tale only.
Literally the only thing this has going for it is how much of the world would be united in support of watching the USS Donnie Dotard sink into the ocean depths where it is crushed beyond all recognition.
Every word makes sense but … It does not matter. It needs to be big, it must have (the illusion) of impressive and it has to carry his name.
Remember the
AlamoYamato!Okay but what does a really good space anime have to do with Trump’s delusions?
Wait actually I can kind of see it.
In case you’re not kidding, it was a real battleship - practically useless due to it’s size and cost, it only fired it’s main guns in one engagement (and it’s only arguable that they did anything) and spent the rest of the war as a command ship or scuttling between ports attempting to hide from enemy aircraft. It was ultimately sunk on it’s way to a suicide mission by allied bombers.
I knew there was a real ship but I had no idea how useless it actually was.
Better yet, there were two ships in the class. Yamato’s sister ship, Musashi suffered a very similar fate, though.
Battleships cannot exist for there is no armor that can survive modern weapons. You cannot brawl it out against a bomb run and your weapons fire only 100km at best.
It is excellent for blasting away at a shoreline when you have absolute air and naval control. For reducing a defenseless region to rubble without using expensive (and anonymous) missiles or planes.
“And in today’s news, the USS Trump has shelled the deserted remains of Caracas for the 3rd day running.”
It is excellent for blasting away at a shoreline when you have absolute air and naval control.
Even in the battleship era, they had better ships for shore bombardment called “monitors” (after the Civil War-era ships named after USS Monitor that looked similar even though that wasn’t their purpose). A shallow-draft ship just large enough to hold a single battleship turret was a much more economical solution.
Or fishing boats.
I bet if Trump stays in power long enough he will inevitably demand that it is painted gold.
