They represent some of the biggest, most heavy firepower single pieces of equipment out there. Useless as they might be in the modern agility and precision based wars it's pretty on brand for someone who wants to present themselves as some kind of macho strongman.

About a century ago was WWI. Idk about that.

Well, he's also a big fan of walls, so it kinda tracks.

It's well known that ballistic missiles with kinetic payloads are essentially unstoppable, and can take out carriers, for example, for little cost. A fucking low tech Scud carries something like a ton. Imagine a supersonic swarm of 1000kg tungsten bullets raining on a carrier.

Trump doesn’t like their leader.

Trump chose a side. It's not Ukraine. Nothing to do with the leader. He just hates Zelenskyy because he keeps fighting back.

Yes, but in terms of national defense it makes more sense for us to work on inexpensive quickly deployable drones as opposed to a "battleship". Taking the "we could spend this on something other than the military" factor out of the equation.

After spending 2025 sending sternly worded letters, the Dems appear to be spending 2026 doing everything they can to help the GOP in the midterms. Cancelling the gas tax to keep gas prices down so the illegal, immoral Assault on Iran's impact are lessened was really the cherry on top for me.

Essentially...yes

Like school on a saturday

Instead of those ugly gray ones, imagine beautiful shiny gold

But would it have a ballroom?

The empire would have been more stable if they pushed Arquitens cruisers over star destroyers.

But then, the empire wasn’t meant to be stable or effective, either.

They've always been so good at this.

Actually, the US already has those. They are sailing logistic hubs which are converted merchant ships. It can support multiple helicopters landed at the same time and it can transport fuel and other goods. But more importantly, it can carry and control several shipping containers full of drones from a safe distance behind their warships in action. They are completely different to previous military logistic ships, they are considered asymmetric hybrid logistic combat platforms, or special ops mpyherships. And because they used to be merchant ships, they are extremily cheap compared to actual military ships.

The only official one known is the MV Ocean Trader. They are support ships so not official military commissioned ships.

The US, Russia and China (and maybe other countries) are experimenting with civilian ships carrying military gear in shipping containers. Like radar systems and missile systems, but also drone launchers and jammers. Russia is already known for their asymmetric warfare, with their seperstist armies fighting in Ukraine before they invaded, their shadow fleets and their mercenary armies in Africa. But China and the US are also operating in a similar way, finding a gray area between civil and military operations.

Why, you may ask? Well, during a conflict a military target is a valid target. But a civilian target is not. So why not equip a civilian target with military gear? That's also why the invasion in Ukraine was labeled by Russia as a "special military operation" instead of a war. Same as what the US did when they kidnapped Maduro and when they illegally attacked Iran. "Let's call it differently so we can get away with it."

Honestly the place my brain went is weirdly the old blimp carrier concept from the inter-war period. Like I wonder if it could be adapted to work with drones, maybe with modern materials and tech it could solve the core issues of it being weirdly uncontrollable and the planes breaking themselves and the blimp when trying to "land".