Rule of law in this land now: "Trump-class" anything is coded for "kickback-funneling-class" - it's never going to exist for it's stated mission, only for the explicit mission of funneling money around.

He really is Hitler brained.

Poor guy wants to see his name on everything and the biggest boat with biggest guns would be his favorite.

Goddamn his parents should have taken him to a psych hospital

Like, the navy hasn't used battleships in decades because they are obsolete to deystroyers, that kind of obstacle?

America is never recovering from this shit show.

It's going to take, minimum, 10 years to build, right? And that's not counting any design, planning, and other ships that may be in progress at our shipyards. He's never going to see it. So let's just tell him we're building it, and not.

How could a large incredibly expensive slow moving warship that's really easy to locate and follow possibly be a bad idea? It's not like you can quickly, cheaply, and easily cram a bunch of explosives in a few unnamed submersibles and sink those ships for a fraction of the cost, right?

Remember the Alamo Yamato!

If it does get made I hope it sinks faster than the Vasa

Every word makes sense but ...... It does not matter. It needs to be big, it must have (the illusion) of impressive and it has to carry his name.

Literally the only thing this has going for it is how much of the world would be united in support of watching the USS Donnie Dotard sink into the ocean depths where it is crushed beyond all recognition.

In other words: the idea of a battleship is as outdated as the idiot in the White House who had it.

The very first thought that popped into my head when I heard about this was that Trump is so stupid he doesn't even realize that we haven't actively used battleships in our naval doctrine since the end of World War 2. Aircraft carriers will always be more versatile, have longer range, and cast a larger sphere of influence than a battleship of any size ever will.

So this is little more than a glorified pet project to stroke Trump's fragile ego, set to the tune of multiple billions of dollars in R&D and private contracts to his wealthy friends, for a project that will unlikely be done before he leaves office or leaves this mortal coil, whichever comes first.

I expect that if we end this madness and get a Democrat in office, if they have any good sense at all, they'll cancel the project. However, the damage will be done between now and the next three years. Taxpayer money will be shoveled into this pit and evaporate into the ether.

I bet if Trump stays in power long enough he will inevitably demand that it is painted gold.

“This may be an era in which the president believes the U.S. last had naval supremacy.”

What he believes is that his name needs to be plastered on something of relative permeance and might, because once he keels over he'll be remembered as a cautionary tale only.

Meanwhile, our Navy's skeleton crews have a tough enough time simply avoiding ramming tankers. Maintenance is also suffering, and since we have the largest fleet on Earth, it all seems rather pointless.

The money would be better spent on our existing fleet, I think.

Lmao the lazerpig, animarchy et al roundtable have been having a field day with this.

r/NoncredibleDefense too

We'll call it the Numbnutz Class.

This thing is getting a proper announcement on Monday, right?

I'm actually really curious to see what the Navy thinks the role and function of a modern battleship should be.

Especially with the designs coming out of China focusing on missile and especially drone launching capabilities, I wonder if ONR will go the same way or if they have a different vision for the future of capital warships.

The article mentions the Navy saying it wants to focus on distributing naval assets across many smaller vessels, and that seems far more sound in an era where an autonomous naval drone can pack enough punch to take down a massive vessel and can be launched in swarms. I'm not sure what the value of massive vessels are in a world where that exists. Would it be capable of launching its own drone fleet of screening ships? Is it a massive EWAR platform? Does it even have guns? I dunno. I wanna see though.

He probably heard his boss bragging over the Moskva.

i'm just surprised he hasn't started building his washington krasnov monument [below] that is right next to washington's girthy stately vigorous phallic protrusion.

Key Points: Never stopped him before.

You know this is fake because the ship isn’t pure gold

Trump's Foley

Such an insecure little boy that late 70s man is.

First and foremost the fact that he obviously have no idea what an actual battleship is - A ship type no longer in use because Billy Mitchell proved it to be an obsolete concept 100 years ago.

Fewf I thought it was Trump's Narcisism which would have been a way bigger obstacle.