>US Navy confirms nuclear power for Trump-class battleshipWhat do you think of the new battleship?
Trump’s proposed battleships look impressive on paper.
I think calling it a battleship is silly
>>65381952Implessive.
I think it's a retarded idea by a senior retard who's looking to get rich off of his political career, not looking to improve US's strategic position on the high seas.
It should have at least 256 Mk41 VLS cells
>>65381961It's clearly meant to be the Defiant class, but Trump is an egomaniac so he said he'd only approve it if they gave it his name, and then asked a bunch of cool sci-fi shit to be added to it.
>>65381966it should be nothing but VLS and lasers.at least 5 lasers per side.actually, just make it all lasersI want to see 5 5x5 arrays of lasers on each cardinal directionmegawatt lasers. 25 on each station.beyond the horizon laserslasers that can carve messages onto the moon
>Hello I am military industrial complex man. Dear mister narcissist president we want to build a warship with your name. It will be the BIGGEST and GREATEST and have all the weapons and nobody ever has done something like this. Did i mention it has your name and it will be a battleship??? Anyway can i have a hundred billion dollars :)
>>65381996Other way around, typically ship classes are named after the first ship and here the first ship is the USS Defiant. So this is the Defiant class, and Trump wouldn't sign the bill unless they gave it his name. And probably asked them to keep adding the most high end sci-fi shit possible.
>>65382001Yes and as soon as trump is out the name and the sci fi stuff will be scrapped but the price will remain the same and it will be payed for
>>65381952How is it a "Battleship" if it doesnt even have a an 8 inch, 55 caliber MK16 gun? It NEEDS to have a bigger gun than all the other ships in the fleet.
>>65382009it's supposed to have at least 1 HV rail gun
It should have an autonomous drone factory built in. Imagine a warship spamming thousands of murderbots in enemy's waters.
>>65381952I think that our remaining Ticos have 122 VLS cells, not a 1960s vintage arm launcher.
>>65381952>trump classremove the name, hate the fucker
>>65381988>beyond the horizon lasers
>>65382026Better than the Ford class. Ford was a mediocre prez
>>65382029It has missiles that are actually just mirrors to redirect the lasers to distant surface targets.
>>65382036Uh, how about mirror sattelites?
>>65382030Ford was an officer on an aircraft carrier. Apparently saved it from a potentially devastating fire iirc during one of Halsey’s typhoons. If they’re naming a class after a president he makes the most sense, followed by the elder Bush who already had a Nimitz.
>>65381952Out of this whole debacle I'm just glad the navy is still planning on procuring DDG(X) as planned, apparently the Trump class might cut into Ford procurement if it gets built however
>>65381957I call Bullship.
>>6538202925 megawatts of combined beam!Just burn right through the ocean!none of this smarty pants ideas shit >>65382036>>6538203825 megawatt not enough? use all 5 5x5 arrays.
>>65382039Ford's greatest military accomplishment was surviving a typhoon. Pretty lame imo
>>65382046Halsey-class supercarriers would have been so much better
>>65381996>>65382001From what I've been able to piece together from various interviews and other sources, here's roughly how I think it went down:>Navy determines that they need a large surface combatant in the range of 20-30k tons>Navy doesn't think they can get approval for that, so they design a 17k ton destroyer with an "optional" 5k ton payload module that all but maybe the the first one will get>Phelan pitches it to Trump, who complains about how how gay and ugly modern ships are and how much better battleships looked>Phelan says he can work with that, and has the Navy draw up a wish list for a future warship on the large end of their range rather than struggling to fit everything into something too small>Phelan comes back with a drawing and tells trump it's a battleship and it's called the Trump class, Trump loves that shit>Hegseth is an enormous retard that doesn't like the Navy and doesn't think they should get any money>It pisses off Hegseth that Trump really likes the idea and is full speed ahead on battleships>Hegseth conspires to get Phelan fired, but Trump still wants to get them built
Fuck you, I like it
>>65382029Bending laser using atmospheric pressure differences to function as lenses. It'll be equipped with metereology drones to find firing solutions.
>>65382061I have no idea what this thing is supposed to do other than being a sea platform for a heli. The rail cannon is being removed for sure. It can carry some cruise missiles? It can't defend itself in anyway shape or form though. It doesn't seem optimized to do anything particularily well. You could design a ship entirely being around a cruise missile boat and make something better.
At least it's going to have 192 normal cells + 12 fat cells
>>65382093You'd imagine it would be...bigger?
>>65382093What is this, a battleship for ants?
>>65381952main guns too small, missiles not big enough.secondary gun batteries poorly placed
>>65381952Awful name but I have a raging hard-on for nuclear-powered surface combatants so I'll let it slide. God I hope it's absolutely bristling with energy weapons.>>65382036Why go small? Make the missiles Casaba Howitzers. Also, in defiance of all reason, logic and rationality, the military should reveal that they've actually kept working on MARAUDER all this time and that the main gun of this monstrosity is going to be a plasma railgun with a dedicated reactor. Utterly useless for anything besides molesting thirdies and will probably cause international incidents just by existing but fun fact: a 1g projectile moving at 15,000kilometers/second (5% of c, which MARAUDER was predicted to hit in 2000 - the speed, not the projectile weight or energy) has 112,500MJ of energy, equal to ~26 tons of TNT. That's 60 2000lb bombs or a bit more than the Davy Crockett. I could die happy after seeing it fired in anger.
Hear me out:>Missile carrier>Flight deck is actually one giant VLS cell structure
>>65381988>>65382042>trump if he had autismGet Styropyro on the line! We need the best!
>>65381952It’s alright for what it is. It’s not a battleship as in sent to destroy peer level enemy ships. It’s a showpiece to send a message and bully weaker nations when they don’t do what they’re expected to. In an actual war with someone like China other ships will be used instead
I can't afford groceries.
>>65381952It’s a stretched destroyer. The best bit is it will never see combat but have a large crew so there will be more opportunities for male crew to rape the female crew. Good luck sailors!
>>65382187Let them eat bugs.
>>65381952If they said it as a next gen cruiser I would have thought it was pretty cool but way too expensive for what it is / what you get. So that is basically what I think of it now only it has this retarded battleship name taped to it for the moment. Being nuclear powered this thing ought to have actually-formidable laser defense and if it really works that would be impressive. It would need several megawatts to down a hypersonic but if it could actually-do this it would prove its worth for the ability to protect carrier strike groups (as well as its own gold plated ass). Thing is currently the max laser power it’s supposed to carry is 0.6mw .. but it has a pair of these so I suppose if they both converged on the same spot (which sounds very tricky) you could get over a megawatt on target? We’ll see. Since this thing is years away from existing if ever they have time to upgrade the laser especially since they decided to give nuke reactors. Like I said it actually would be a pretty cool ship if it was not so fucking retard expensive, but it is. We would need like 50 of these to make a truly formidable upgrade over Burke swarm and we definitely are not getting that many.
>>65381952trump has no class
>>65382146>a 1g projectile moving at 15,000kilometers/secondIts going to have a range of nothing in the atmosphere. The neutrons generated from shattered nuclei will have a greater range than the projectile itself.
>>65382189Screen cap this post you made and look back on it in a year or two. I think you unironically have a mental illness and need to talk to a psychiatrist or therapist to figure out how to help. I genuinely hope you get the help you need
>>65381952it's gonna be called Gypsy Danger
>>65381952It's a missile cruiser but stupid because muh rail guns, realistically it's dead in November.
>>65382187go to an aldi nigga wtf u doin
>>65382263GOT EM
>>65381957>>65382041Pedo ferry.
>>65381952>can't build a new frigate >can't build a new destroyer>can't build a cruiser >decide to build a nuclear powered battleships displacing 35 000 tis there seriously even one person who thinks this will go well?
>>65382509>can't build a new frigate>can't build a new destroyer>can't build a cruiserThat was all Biden's fault. Patriots are in charge now
>>65381952Should have named it the Epstein-class.
>>65382187Skill issue.
>>65382509>can build the most advanced carrier(Ford)>can build the most advanced sub(Columbia)>can build the most advanced DDG(Zumwalt)Defiant will be the most powerful warship afloat. Seethe more thirdie
>>65382066Yes anon, getting light over the horizon is very much possible, but it's no longer going to be a focused laser beam that can actually destroy anything.Also, you're very much overestimating our ability to model the atmosphere at such scale and simultanious detail.
>>65382516>still can't build a new frigate>still can't build a new destroyer>still can't build a cruiserOkay.What now? Two more decades?
>>65382509...while a black man was president
>>65382187Sorry, CarlosThe way is shut
>>65381952How many times are we going to have this thread?
>>65382597Until the ship gets cancelled (statistically speaking)?
>>65382626I think the ship is going to be made, named the Defiant class, and they remove the rail cannon and turn it into a missile ship.
>>65382639Yeah, my fear is that it will just become some kimd of Zumwalt 2.0.However, ive heard a few interviews with the current Undersecretary of the Navy, and if all the things he talks about gets implemented it might just unfuck the whole shipbuilding situation
>>65382639but will it still have the built in AI data center?
>>65382026>>65382030just stop naming ships after fucking politicians. the brits are pretty gay these days but their ship naming has always been S tier.
>>65381996There is no way the navy wants this money black hole instead of a new destroyer or cruiser class that can be produced at scale.
Does the US even have that capacity to built these?
>>65382742Lmao no, but we can generate images of it with AI :^)In all seariousness, the shipyards that are big enough are busy, so maybe this will lead to expansion of existing yard, which would be a win, especially if we decide to build something more useful instead.
>>65382742Thats kinda up for debate. Yes they have the docs and yards, but those are already at capacity. The bottleneck is in regards to the nuclear propulsion, as there's only two that deal with nuclear ships, so that might mean that either subs or carriers will be pushed back. Now, there is a push to establish a new naval yard but that will take years to complete. Maybe both SMR developments and prefabrication can help here, who knows.
>>65382531>but it's no longer going to be a focused laser beam that can actually destroy anything.I wonder if it would retain enough coherence to be useful as a blinding weapon. It would be a gigantic dick move to actually do that, though.
>>65382187How the fuck can't you afford groceries?
>>65381988
>>65382988Lost all my money on Melania-coins
>>65382763>>65382776Philly has spare capacity and the Koreans want to get it nuclear certified to make their subs. Obviously the plan to have the first one in the water in three years or whatever is bullshit but we can absolutely build them.
>>65382742yes, but the contract is mostly a boondoggle to keep the shipyards open rather than something that'll actually get built there. These things are going to be so far back in the build queue that the Navy can swoop in and say "actually lol we change our mind but keep the money" and everyone just nods along and pretends like this wasn't what was going to happen the whole time.
>>65381952It's just a rendering, which means its just for funding. If USN can actually design this before 2040, maybe it will exist? But looking at how everything has gone in the last 20 years, that's less than likely.It certainly has better naming sense than all the stupid who'dats that modern ships are named for.
>>65381957It is. Battleships are fundamentally outdated because passive defense like armor has been largely obsoleted by the proliferation of precision munitions of various sorts.>>65381988Lasers powerful enough to penetrate... your mom
>>65382957That would probably be a viable application (if you ignore that it's a literal warcrime).
>>65381957people don't understand that a BBG is not a BB>>65381966It has at least 192 (that we know of).
>>65381983>>65381961>insists that Trump named itUh oh the TDS victims came running fast.
>>65383192>It certainly has better naming sense than all the stupid who'dats that modern ships are named for.Naming your ships after war heroes? Cringe and dumb.Naming your warship after a fat child touching kike? Based!!1!1
>>65382639It shouldn't because the focus needs to be on lots of smaller ships designed for minimal crew but in this clown world who knows.
>>65381966I wish we could bring back the Mk 57s.
>>65381952this looks like the box art for a scale model. it should read "1/700 scale model" right across from "trump class". unfortunately this is a real thing my tax dollars will go towards and not a $25 childrens toy.
>>65383444The $20 the government gets from your McDonald's salary doesn't entitle you to bitch and moan like a little cuck
>>65381952>I was talking to one of those ccean generals in the Navy the other day and I asked "How are our new battleships progressing?" He said: "Sir, it's a very big ask.", I replied "Yeah, a very big ass boat. It's going to blow everyone else's out of the water!" Then I asked what would be a good name for the new battleship? Many people are coming to me and asking: "Mr. President, what will we name our powerful new ships?" Historically, battleships were named after states, well now I'm told those names go to submarines (Fitting for the Democrat states since they always SINK!) Well, I asked "What state names are available?" I didn't like the list, so I proposed naming it after the state of things in our country: Great, Amazing, Superb. All accurate descriptions! Finally, I decided on DEFIANT. Because we're defying China, defying the do-nothing-dummies who tell us we can't make big boats anymore, and defying Obama and Biden (WHO WANTED TO SCRAP OUR NAVY AND TURN OUR SHIPS INTO PUBLIC BUSSES- IT'S TRUE! LOOK IT UP!) So that's what our new big beautiful POWERFUL BATTLEship will be named. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
>>65383454what point did this prove other than letting me know that I managed to get you mad by making a lame joke
>>65383548>the entitled McCuck returnsDoes Dayshawun know you walked away from the fryer?
>>65383580wow you are butthurtmoloch thanks you for your service
>>65381952>Zumwalt>Independence/Freedom>ConstellationOther than the Fords the USN refuses to make a proper ship. They all sputter out. Reagan stop subsidies for all shipyards so they all went out of business. That means any shipbuilding careers in the u.s died you can’t build just warships alone when they last for decades each. Honestly I think buying off workers for life that only build warships/infastructure for those ships would be better than whatever they are doing now. I can’t even imagine how they will try to build new ships with no yards or workers.
>>65383796Might have to add the Polar Security Cutter to that list as wellArtic Security Cutter looks to be going as planned tho, mostly because the lead ships are being made in Finland
>>65382763>>65382776>>65383072Is there enough trained and educated workers? Generally it seems the west let everything rot and decided that investing in the next generation of trained professionals is gay.
>>65383399If Trump didn't name it after Trump then who did?
>>65383859Somebody looking for approval
>>65382597Until you understand orange man bad, seething MIGAt.
Nu-Dreadnought makes my pp hard
>>65384039
a lot of thirdies, chinks, ziggers and muslims seething itt kek
>>65382187Skill issue. Finish college and get a comfy, high-paying job
>>65382462German here is Aldi US actually cheaper than US chains?Because back home the supermarket wars have ended in stalemate and they are all pretty similar in price.
>>65384976Yes, Aldi is the cheapest grocery store in my area.
>>65384039>hangar directly below VLS cellsW-where do the missiles go
>>65384988The VLS block is on the centerline, hangars are to the sides.The later Burkes use a similar setup.
>>65381952No big boom boom gun not a battleship.
>>65382026Defiant class will be the official name. "Trump class" will just be an informal nickname like the "Dead Admiral class" for the Kidd class destroyers
>>65381952>US Navy confirms nuclear power for Trump-class battleshipThey actually gonna make this? Morons.
>>65382666that's gay as shit, anon
>>65381952>railgun mounted to the bow of the ship, at the opposite end from the reactor that powers it>CIWS lasers mounted in broadside turrets in the space between the two superstructures, drastically limited their field of fire>two 5-in guns in wing-turret mountsWhat the fuck even is this design?
>>65385338>picthe moses maneuver...
>>65385582why would the reactor be in the stern?
>No stop, if you shoot my battleship it will be an ecological disaster the likes of which no one has ever seen.
It's based and the only thing I agree with Trump on. It will hopefully be renamed and the rest of his name wiped from American history when he dies in prison for raping kids.
>>65385595The nation that invented gutter oil laughs at your threats of ecological damage. There is nothing you can do to them that is worse than what they do to themselves.
>>65385602If powerful nations have it, it could be a new form of determent. I don't think this will stop iran from shooting at it, for example, but imagine how stupid that future would feel
>>65381952>>65384039What is one, gigantic, paper-armored 35kt target going to do that two 16kt missle spam DD's can't do? Be nuclear powered? They could do that on destroyers too if they weren't pussies. Have a laser? Zumwalt generates enough power for one and it doesn't even have a nuke. Big gun for boomer memes? We already have it just give the MIC a gorillion dollars to start serial production. More VLS cells? That's just putting more eggs in one very explosive basket. Real Jeune Ecole hasn't been tried.
>>65382187You will eat black beans and rice for every meal while chinks eat McDonalds and you'll fucking like it.
>>65384976Aldis is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper.3 pounds of ground beef was TWENTY-SEVEN dollars at Kroger like two months ago. At the exact same time it was eighteen at Aldi's.
>>65381988>We count 30 rebel ships, but they're so small, they're evading our turbolasersThe long ,long time in a galaxy far, far away is becoming here and now.
>>65385633>tfw I just bought 5 pounds of ground beef at Safeway for $8.97 the other day
>>65381952We haven't just had this thread before, we've had the exact same TDS posts whining about orange man followed by his mask slipping and revealing himself as an angry shitskin.
>>65385338You lost. Quit crying about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg2xjnz-fFE
>>65383399There is a persistent autist here nicknamed Achmad or Ackmad who is absolutely obsessed with Trump and spams about him in every thread.
>>65383418>war heroesAh yes like Harvey Milk.>child touchingDidn't all the pizzagate debunkers get caught with CP? Weird how you only want to attack the guy that demonstrably never touched a child and called the feds on Epstein, probably because you're a chomo like all commies.
Wouldn’t making a giant drone carrier be a lot less STUPID drones are the future?Just holds a fuckton of drones inside for launch.
>>65383511I voted for this.
I bet I know what nation routinely gets its ass kicked by flips, can't build a blue water navy, and seethes about the Donald.
>>65385698>the virgin temu baton >the chad BATTLE PADDLE
>>65385698Is that the fucking Deez in the background?
>>65383871Trump put his name on several monuments already, you think he didn't name the ship.>>65383399TDS is rhe gayest buzzword considering even the most Trump obsessed demographic of 65+ white low educated males even has a negative view on him right now. You will find very little people outside of crazies willing to support him without at least a caveat.He is the most unliked president in history thanks to a failure in war and economic policy, but also general crass behaviour, money laundering, foreign bribes etc etc.I struggle to find real Trump MAGA's anymore outside of fringe forums and twitter, honestly I feel like republicans want him replaced too.>>65385690Never seen it.
>>65385729Reach vs Power
>>65383399>TDSYou're such a sensitive little bitch that you created a term that encompasses most of the country to cope about how offended you are. Nobody who disliked Obama had Obama derangement syndrome because we were interested in improving the country for all Americans and our political identity wasn't just that we wanted to troll people who didn't follow our way of life. You are so pathetic that if Trump nuked the entire country you'd think it was based because it made the liberals seethe.
>>65383399defending everything he does is tdsnaming a class of ship after a sitting president is retarded and cringe
>>65385692>Muh pizzagate>Muh deflection Lmao. Remember when Trump promised to find the culprits and bring them to justice? Of course you dont. How many convictions have resulted from Trump's "investigation"? Weird how it's hard to get anything incriminating from the files when 50% of the names are redacted and a massive chunk of the files just seem to have disappeared. What's your excuse for that discrepancy, you lying faggot?
>>65382009Oh look its another retard who can't comprehend that a BBG isn't a BB.
>>65382024That is correct, the swing arm Ticos got retired a long time ago, but what does that have to do with the OP?
>>65382040>I'm just glad the navy is still planning on procuring DDG(X) as plannedDDG(X) is dead Jim.
>>65381952>All the unironic TDS posts on this thread/k/ is an occupied board.
>>65382058What you wrote is not based on "interviews" and directly contradicts what the USN has said.
>>65382187>claims to be starving>is morbidly obese
>>65383037>the plan to have the first one in the water in three yearsMid 2030's, cutting steel in 2028 is not "keel in the water".
>>65386774Please share with the class what the USN has said in direct contradiction to that post.
>>65384039>unironically posting NavyLookout's hilariously inaccurate graphic
>>65386758In the last thread, I pointed out that the Strait of Hormuz situation is proof that we need a warship more capable than the Burke. OP said that we already had the Ticonderoga, and when I asked what he thought made the Tico suitable for operations in the Strait of Hormuz, his answer was that they have 1960s tech missile launchers that were all retired decades ago. When he realized his mistake, he deleted the thread and made this one.https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/65367153/#q65368298
>>65386796Read the first paragraph of this article.https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/trump-class-battleships-are-exactly-what-the-navy-needs-swo-boss-says/
>>65386836Where do you think the contradiction is?
>>65385803not beating the accusation
>>65386838Tell us what the SWO is quoted saying in that article to
>>65385881You gotta love how leftists have to pretend to not understand what TDS is because of how accurately it describes their behavior.
>>65386847He says that we need a ship larger than a Burke. Where's the contradiction?
>>65381952>>65384039Why the fuck aren't the mk45's guns in centreline? Having both guns mounted aside each other restricts their lines of fire, you might as well just have the single gun. If you must have two of them why not put one of them into a superimposed location to get the best arcs of fire? Or better yet put one of them into Y position to cover the aft of the ship? Am I missing something?
>>65386868He doesn't say we need a ship larger than a Burke, he said we need a ship larger than DDG(X).>McLane said the service ran into some challenging design choices about what to include on the next-generation destroyer, highlighting the need for a larger hull like the battleship. But thanks for confirming you didn't read the article with an actual interview.
>>65386874The only thing that makes sense is depression to hit close surface targets, which is a "but why?".
>>65386883>Tell me what the first paragraph saysOkay.>No, not that one!Okay, retard.>McLane said the service ran into some challenging design choices about what to include on the next-generation destroyer, highlighting the need for a larger hull like the battleship.Yes, because like I said the DDG(X) was intentionally designed too small because that's the most they thought they could get away with. It doesn't mean that there's absolutely no possible way they could make do with a ship of only 25,000 tons displacement.
>>65386874Zumwalt also had two Mk.45 mounts side by side, although they were replaced with Bushmasters as a cost reduction matter. Apparently the Navy doesn't think it's a big deal but it seems counterintuitive to me as well.
Navy procurement board currently licking its lips and rubbing its hands together at the thought of quintupling its budget over 15 years and producing exactly 2 of them.
Wouldn't it make more sense to produce a bunch of smaller vessels instead? It's a bit silly having a giant ass ship on the sea nowdays since war doesn't really revolve around size anymore.
>>65387041>since war doesn't really revolve around size anymore.How certain are you of this claim? What is it based on?
>>65381955the weapons in the middle of the ship can't protect or fire at anything in front or behind the ship, you're really stretching the definition of impressive
>>65387041"You can only make small OR big ships" is a false dichotomy.
>>65386768TDS is not a rea lthing, you're parroting a 2008 New York Times meme.
>>65387087Next you are going to tell us there is a place where you can get full 360 coverage that isn't a VLS cell.
>>65383399not a good look
>>65387126Q and MAGA overlaps in regards to trump and pedophilia.
>>65387087Oh no, what happens if something sneaks up from it in exactly directly in front and they choose not to turn slightly or fire a missile at it?
>>65387126see >>65386855Eichorn did not coin the term TDS.
>>65387124>>65387142it's a really shitty design, no need to act so cunty about itand it's a complete waste of resources when they should be focusing on smaller hulls and drone mothership carriers missiles are too expensive and take too long to build, you're doctrine is outdated and you're going to get a lot of people killed for it, that should be totally avoidable I'll pray for your wretched misguided souls and everyone that will suffer from your pigheadedness
>>65381952Are they always going to be carrying the statue of liberty on the back like that? I get that's its patriotic but it must add weight to the ship
>>65387153semantics, he wanted to make it a legally defined mental illness, which is worseyou're surrounded by pedophiles and treat politics like a game, you're not serious people and shouldn't be treated as such
>>65387168your doctrine*
>>65381988that would actually be fucking lit but we cant have anything cool in 2026, a big sleek flat-faced stealth battleship with a BILLION VLS cells and laser CIWS and maybe one nice railgun would be some Acecombat type shit, like you said literally like 5-6 lasers on each side with redundant coverage, maybe a big stacked pillar with 2 lasers that can spin opposite of eachother while still having a 360 degree view ABOVE the whole super structure, then put a radome on top of the pillar for a dedicated laser-weapon FCS when it opens its VLS cells and fires them all I want it to look like a MACROSS mech shooting 200 fucking missiles that just streak out away from the ship and then start tracking multiple targetsinstead we get MAYBE 1 railgun and some normal ass kinetic CIWS
>>65386874I thought that too, why not at least have them staggered so if you had to broadside the guns you actually can? I guess the ship mostly going to sling railgun shells and shoot VLS missiles so probably doesn't even matter
>>65387168>drone mothership carriers >missiles are too expensiveOh, you're not uninformed, youre just a retarded brown thirdie. Keep seething, please.
>>65381952It's gay. The first ship should be called the USS Poseidon's Trident.
>>65382281MARAUDER is a plasma rail gun that fires a plasma toroid with absurdly insane amounts of energy to it. It doesn't fire a solid projectile.
>>65382187Cancel your internet service and use the money on groceries instead, ritardo.
>>65382283Trump's favorite stripper.
>>65382516>Patriots are in charge nowThe La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo???!!! How is that possible????!!!!
>>65382666>HMS Never-gets-tiredWhat a fucking retarded-ass name for a ship.
>>65381952Looks like the only thing the US can make is AI slop how many jets have been shot down now
>>65383205>>65383205>It is. Battleships are fundamentally outdated because passive defense like armor has been largely obsoleted by the proliferation of precision munitions of various sorts.The Navy is gonna take a page out of Ukraine's book and cover it with ERA bricks.
>>65387267your hubris is going to be your downfallanyone not fully going the cheap drone route is going to be wiped off the face of the earthyou dismiss anyone that tries to pop the bubble you are in as a a brown from the third world, you're sleepwalking into a disaster of your own making
>>65387359implessive, vely implessive, yelloid.
>>65387345One. You can't shoot down planes already on the ground and Reapers aren't jet powered.
>>65387361anything to deflect from the substance, gotta keep the big defense bucks rolling to make your useless crap and the tiny hats happy
>>65382093>$18 billion for the first ship>$13 billion for each one afterHow, exactly is the Navy planning on paying for this? The retarded FY27 NDAA is already $1.5 trillion and doesn't have any revenue backing. The navy is planning on 15 of these fucking things for at least $200 billion in just construction costs (without accounting for how the budget can and will blow up). You can't cut enough discretionary spending to fill the deficit and cutting apart mandatory spending is a death sentence for the GOP if they try it. All this to get a ship that does twice what a Type 055. Two Type 055s only cost ~$2billion though. Even if you put Chinese combat quality at 1/4th disadvantage, that's still ~$8 billion in Type 055s for a 1.6 : 1 cost ratio in their favor.
>>65387168>say something really stupid>do so while being immensely smug about it>get told you are being really stupid>realize you were being really stupidN-No need to act so cunty about it!
>>65387177No anon it isn't semantics, you asserted he coined the term in 2025. This sort of stupidity and willingness to believe anything is why people tell you that you have TDS.
>>65387454>All this to get a ship that does twice what a Type 055You are being generous to the 055.
>>65381952This. will. never. happen.
>>65387330It also never existed.
>>65387558That's nice dear but you lost.
>>65387584White people mever lose, anon
>>65387539Does green texting your mentally retarded head cannon help you sleep at night lol faggot cvck
>>65387546All I hear is sucking sounds from you and your boyfriend, go be a pest at your local gay bar with the other totally straight conservatives wink wink
>>65387550Which is why I discounted the Type 055 by 75% and did the comparison of 8 Type 055s vs one Trump. They can put a dozen Type 055s against one BBG(X) and still come out on the favorable side of the cost ratio. That's to say nothing about production rates. They're going to build these things one at a time in Norfolk and it might fuck up carrier construction. The Chinese have three different yards working on Type 055s and are building 4 of them at a time.The math just isn't making any sense.
>>65382509>>65382516Not of that bs is true though, are you smoking crack?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy#Under_construction
>>65387797>They're going to build these things one at a time in Norfolk and it might fuck up carrier construction.Carriers aren't built in Norfolk so it wouldn't.
>>65388210Arleigh Burkes are a 1988 design (not new) and the Constellation is a fucking Italian design and a known memeship. The US hasn't succeeded in designing and building a new surface combatant in three decades, despite nearly a dozen attempts.
>>65386768it's always the case with people who can be on here all day
>>65387454reminder that this cheap chinese bath toy can't fill 100% of its vls cells because they are not ventilated
>>65387797>They can put a dozen Type 055s against one BBG(X)We've seen how ineffective Chinese air defenses are in Venezuela and Iran. One LCS could sink eight Type 055s.
>>65388210The USN has no problem building destroyers, it was a strange cope.
>>65387797>They can put a dozen Type 055s against one BBG(X) and still come out on the favorable side of the cost ratio.You have no idea what an 055 costs.
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>>65388273You're right, my bad. It's Newport News on the other side of the river.
>>65388468>A plane parked at a Saudi airbaseImplessive.
