I've been thinking about the Trump class since the announcement and what I've come up with is more political/strategic than tactical. First I'll get its mission out of the way, I bet it'll skirt around the chink dongfeng range like a carrier, and deliver externally cued concentrated effects on target especially with hypersonics that are currently only available on SSNs whose production lines are maxed out and Zumwalts which we stopped making. Its self defense batteries can allow it to do this in both littorals and blue water.Now about politics, the real kicker is that its tonnage and dimensions require it to be built in a Carrier/Amphibious drydock, which means it will need more space that is currently occupied by CVNs and Amphibs. What better way to get around that than to reopen all the old, big drydocks? Hanwha Philly is a given with the $150B Korean money. Newport News can expand. Hunters Point and Sparrows Point are good candidates for next. Hell, maybe even Mare island. The Navy has been dragging its heels to increase industrial capacity because of the Columbia being a fucking budget black hole and also NAVSEA is just incurably retarded, but now Trump is giving everyone a golden ticket to add this capacity to a budget sheet, but politically it's for his super duper battleship instead of a boring concrete box. Looks good for Congress and local voters.Best case we get 4-5 ships for $5-6B each, spend $8-10b on R&D as an inefficiency politics tax, cancel the program because it's retarded to have 20 of them, and get a ton of shipyards that can service carriers and LPD/LHD/LHAs and bring the Amphibs to double 40% FMC rate.Absolute worst nightmare case the battleships eat into Carrier drydock space, we get 1-2 ships instead of a Carrier on schedule.What does everyone think?
I think that the POTUS is a senile midwit who constantly runs his mouth and nothing is even going to be drawn up because he'll have forgotten about it in a month.
>Bolo tank but it doesn't have to worry about ground pressureThere, its fixed as a concept.
>>64670344well i think youre a midwit AND you arent prezzo
>>64670314it's all politicsstart the release of the Epstein files, get called out on how censored they are. So you announce your super duper battleship.it's stupid because it's meant to be stupid because it's meant to distract you
Ok, but what about the noveaux noblesse cringe that is the heraldic on the wall?
>>64670314and my theory is even simpler - you MAGA cultists are going to end the same way as any other cult ended in the past (ritual suicide by poisoning)
>orange man bad
More like Mandarin Man
>>64670962trolling the people you dont like doesnt make him good
>>64670467it's just concept art
>>64670314
>>64670314Republicans control Congress. Why the ever loving fuck does he need to spend 50 billion so we get shipyards ten years from now?
>>64670907Also their ex-MAGA kids will troon out
>>64670314At the end of the day, at least this admin is at least spending some focus on the Navy. Not sure if the FF(x) and Trump BBG are the right classes, but at some point you need hulls ordered so shipyards can make capital investments.
>>64670314The most sensible theory is that Trump both dealt in and got high on the supply running through his and Epstein's business.
>Make OP about procurement politics and industrial base politics >Tards troon out over Epstein politics What causes this?
unrelated but did anybody notice https://4stats.io/removed the interactive post graph and replaced it with a drawing?pic related
>>64670314CONSTELLATION -> CANCELLATION -> COMPENSATION-> CONSTERNATION
>>64670314Are they serious about battleships or is this some more jobs program shit like the artemis?
>>64671426It's like him using tariffs to fix the economy, yes.
>>64670314My conjecture is that Trump did something over the top and silly to catch everyone's attention, but it will turn into something more reasonable in a week or so. It's clockwork.
>>64670314personally think that besides the naming conventions and the class the vessel allegedly is which are purely for show, these things are meant to be true CG's meant to replace the ticos and for that role I think they would be pretty ideal for it depending on how they outfit them. that said I doubt they are going to make 20-25 of them and I also doubt they are going to have railguns, however for a modern cruiser this would be pretty good albeit on the heavy side.
>>64670398Speak English
>>64671426>are they serious about bringing back all big gun dreadnoughtsYou tell me.
>>64671476imo the railguns should be a defensive weapon instead of offensive
>>64671442That's what I love so much about him. People said burgerland was over when he announced the tariffs. Now GDP data just came in today with +4.3% for Q3 with CY25 projections revised to +3.1%.
>>64672440>believes Q3 bullshittery>pretends the shutdown didn't prevent gov't from actually compiling these statsMidwit trash
>>64672529whatever you say luddie
