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Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself (www.nbcnews.com)
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The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump's name to its sign in Washington.

Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.

Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”

Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

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[–] 32 points 8 months ago (6 children)

US already doesn't have the shipbuilding capacity to lay down the hulls we've already got planned for years, but yeah go on.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah I’m not an expert but I don’t think US really needs these?

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Not only didn't need them. They are considered a tactical liability.

    For the resources to build a battleship, they o could build a couple of cruisers. In aggregate those would be more flexible, have better survivability, and have more offensive capability

    It is a stupid bloated vessel for the sake of some twisted sense of superficial extravagant while in truth being a subpar waste of a bunch of people's money. So I guess maybe it is worthy of being named Trump class.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    So basically it's the opposite of what the navy need. The navy has needed a cheaper more numerous hull to complement the Burke class. Something that they have failed with the LCS program and the recently canceled Constellation.

    The Trump class is so large they might have to be built into the same dockyard as carriers. I don't know if Bath iron works can accommodate ships that large. So it would have to be Newport News Shipbuilding or Ingalls Shipbuilding, both of which are already very busy.

    It also means that the dockyard for smaller ships still don't have any work and some of them could eventually shutdown from bankruptcy, further reducing the number of dockyard and production facilities for the navy.

    Edit: I am also going to add, since we have the design for the FF(X) ship that is going to replace the cancelled Constellation class. The FF(X) if it's built as planned is significantly worse than Constellation and will not fill the role that the navy needs. But it's probably a nice bit of money for Ingalls Industries.

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