What's Up With This "Trump-Class" Battleship Business?

If I had to guess:

The Navy and the Air Force are often seen as competing for resources. (I dunno whether that's really so true, but that's the scuttlebutt that people like me hear).

The USAF scored when it got funding for the NGAD/F-47; USN's F/A-XX seems to be fading away.

Add to this the death of the Constellation-class frigate.

Now, the NGAD program apparently chose the designation 'F-47' in order to flatter Trump.

There's also been loose talk floating around for a while about battleships--though mostly in order to explain why they aren't a good idea. (Hint: big naval battles don't happen at distances that can be covered by guns anymore. And, of course, haven't since early in WWII.)

Anyhoo:

One way to look at this:

The "Trump-class" "battleship" is really just a big destroyer. A kind of up-sized Arleigh Burke or Ticonderoga. i.e. a cruiser. Or a big cruiser. It's got a bunch of missiles (including space for hypersonics) and some 5" guns...and...allegedly...a railgun. So kinda Zumwalt-y. Which could easily be replaced by more VLSs...or whatever. So again: kinda Zumwalt-y...

This whole thing seems like a big embarrassment for the Navy...and the nation. You thought sticking Trump's name on the Kennedy center was bad? You thought (allegedly) renaming the future iteration of Enterprise the Musk was embarrassing...?

Well...now we've got the Trump-class "battleships"...and the "golden fleet"...

Look, for all I know this is a good idea with a dumb name and a thin public rationale.

But it doesn't sound good...

Lemme just note:

As embarrassing as Trump can be, at least his policies tend to be reasonably sound substantively. As goofy as all this stuff sounds, it's all--again, substantively speaking--vastly better than what the Democrats would be doing--advancing DEI, transing children, brainwashing bureaucrats, students and employees with "gender" pseudoscience and CRT pseudo(social)science, pumping up inflation by wasting money on climate hysteria and NGO funding that's more-or-less pumped straight into Democrat coffers, piling more regulation on businesses, taxing us more, raising gas prices...

Trump's embarrassing.

The Democrats are worse.

I'm really just sick to death of Trump. And I very much wish he would get tired of the job and turn it over to Vance--and not merely because that would increase the odds of victory in '28...

But our options remain what they basically were in 2018: an insane, woke-addled Democrat party, and an embarrassing-and-kooky-but-basically-more-or-less-sane Republican party...

At some point the Pubs will almost certainly again become the crazier of the two options--but, so far as I can tell, that hasn't happened yet.

And yet another sign that it's not likely to happen soon is that the Dems are hiding their own report about why they lost in '24.

And, until they can admit that they lost because they're batshit crazy, it's unlikely that they'll start to move significantly back toward centrist sanity.

[Addendum:

I thought I just misunderstood...but no...apparently it's not nuclear. Which seems odd...but maybe supports the idea that it's really more of a big cruiser/destroyer.

And/or:

Maybe the Navy plans to scale this thing down once you-know-who is gone.]