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.
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.