Tuesday, December 23, 2025

HERE COME THE TRUMP-CLASS BATTLESHIPS

Not even making this up.
  Sayeth the POTUSest, quoted in the Navy Times:
“The future Trump class battleship, the USS Defiant, will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile — and best looking warship — anywhere on the world’s oceans.”
   Get Space Force in on this and do Space Battleship Missouri...
   Next up: THE BIGGEST AND MOST GOLDEN MUSKET OF ALL TIMEZ!!!!
   Now...I want to see a new generation of battleships as much as any red-blooded American boy does...but, honestly, this strikes me as...well..a little Hitlerian--interfering with military planners in this way. Recall Herr H's attempts, e.g., to turn the Me 262 into a bomber... This sounds like the kind of thing someone who didn't know anything about what he is doing would do...
Look, I'm an interested amateur, obviously...but...as I understand it...among our needs are:
  • The F/A-XX (or similar) 6th Gen fighter
  • A new frigate class (the Constellation class is out; the FF(X) is in)
  • A way to re-arm VLS at sea
  • Unmanned underwater drones
  • More personnel
  • More ship-building capacity
New battleships sound cool...but I'm under the impression that they aren't practical. And I'd worry that they'll clog up berths in Newport News that could be used to produce the FF(X)...
But, as usual: what do I know?

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