Trump announces new "Trump class" of Navy battleships

[Hans Blaster]

There really isn't much of a Black Sea Fleet left. They lost another sub in dock and the last port seems to be no longer be viable.

 

[wing2000]

The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail

The recently announced “Trump” class of battleships is cast as the world’s largest and most powerful ships. But these ships will take years to design, cost $9 billion each, and run counter to the Navy's new concept of distributed operations. They will never be built.

www.csis.org

Yea, let's make a bigger target for drones to destory. As the linked article notes, it will never be built....(and that's a good thing). Maybe to appease Trump's ego, take an existing Battleship out of mothballs...paint it gold and let it parade up and down the Chesepeake Bay.

 

[durangodawood]

The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail

The recently announced “Trump” class of battleships is cast as the world’s largest and most powerful ships. But these ships will take years to design, cost $9 billion each, and run counter to the Navy's new concept of distributed operations. They will never be built.

www.csis.org

Yea, let's make a bigger target for drones to destory. As the linked article notes, it will never be built....(and that's a good thing). Maybe to appease Trump's ego, take an existing Battleship out of mothballs...paint it gold and let it parade up and down the Chesepeake Bay.

You just solved the where to put a ballroom problem!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Let's hope our good friend @Aryeh Jay gets to captain it.

He would love to, but by the time it is ready, Aryeh will be well over 80 years old.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

We need to get to the bottom of why the Navy can't seem to get any significant ship built these days. That's not, strictly speaking, a service issue; that's an issue of the nation's supporting industrial structure.

Getting rid of the government owned shipyards and relying on the sweet words of the commercial shipyard lobby that guaranteed they could be faster, better, and cheaper.

 

[Desk trauma]

He would love to, but by the time it is ready, Aryeh will be well over 80 years old.

Absurd. The freedom cities inland ship yards will be churning them out fortnightly within the coming year!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Absurd. The freedom cities inland ship yards will be churning them out fortnightly within the coming year!

With localy produced steel too!

 

[Desk trauma]

With localy produced steel too!

All powered by clean coal!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

All powered by clean coal!

West Virginia wins again!

 

[RDKirk]

West Virginia wins again!

'Cause West (by God) Virginia always does!

 

[7thKeeper]

Had some time to read up on this and Lazerpig put out a video on the topic (I'll link it below, warning, foul language aplenty)

This thing is more horrid than I thought. But it seems like the reformers are behind the design or at least involved so that explains the reason for that.