Naval Arms Race of the 21st Century

[alpine]

With the new innovations and technologies, the navies of the 21st century are shaping up around these advancements and they are becoming even more effective and deadlier from before.

 

[Steven_R]

The coolest thing is we have no idea what naval warfare in 2116 will look like. Could you imagine the look on every admirals' face if you told them in 1916 that by the end of the century battleships would be obsolete, that small ships like destroyers would have the same tonnage and offensive capabilities as cruisers, that we'd have AEGIS capabilities, drones, missiles like Tomahawks and Harpoons routinely carried by everything under the sun, Phalanx CIWS, submarines that don't need refueled for decades, and so on.

Yeah, we're working on railguns and longer ranged stand-off weapons, but who know what new ideas and technologies will be developed in the next century.

 

[alpine]

The coolest thing is we have no idea what naval warfare in 2116 will look like. Could you imagine the look on every admirals' face if you told them in 1916 that by the end of the century battleships would be obsolete, that small ships like destroyers would have the same tonnage and offensive capabilities as cruisers, that we'd have AEGIS capabilities, drones, missiles like Tomahawks and Harpoons routinely carried by everything under the sun, Phalanx CIWS, submarines that don't need refueled for decades, and so on.

Yeah, we're working on railguns and longer ranged stand-off weapons, but who know what new ideas and technologies will be developed in the next century.

Indeed!

They would be laughing at you if you told them the mighty battleship would be obsolete and the new ships would have none of those mighty turrets at all

The drone technology seems to be very dominant moving forward.

Crazy times...