Trump to unveil plans for new U.S. ‘battleship’, reports say

[rightwinger]

You mean the "experts" that managed to get 13 service people killed because of their gross incompetence?

Those "experts"?

As the saying goes, with "experts" like those, who needs enemies.

I’m tired of that shit from Republicans
They obsess over 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack while they gloss over 3000 killed on 9-11

 

[meaner gene]

Trump / Big Beautiful class battleships.
USS Taj Mahal
USS Plaza Hotel
USS Hotels and Casinos Resorts
USS Entertainment Resorts

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[Crepitus]

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans for a new class of large US Navy surface combatants he has described as “battleships”, according to reports in U.S. media.​

The Wall Street Journal reported that the announcement is due on Monday and will form part of what the White House is calling a broader “Golden Fleet” vision for revitalising the US Navy. The proposal would mark a significant departure from current US naval force structure, which has focused on aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines and increasingly unmanned platforms rather than heavily armed capital ships

According to U.S. officials cited by the Journal, the planned vessels would be larger than existing destroyers and cruisers, with some reports suggesting displacement in the region of 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes. While the administration has revived the historic “battleship” label, defence analysts quoted in U.S. coverage note that the ships would not resemble the heavily armoured gun platforms of the 20th century, but instead function as large, missile-armed surface combatants.


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Trump to unveil plans for new U.S. âbattleshipâ, reports say

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans for a new class of large US Navy surface combatants he has described as âbattleshipsâ.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Meh, just take the Nimitz, put a new reactor in her, and turn her into a PrSM platform.

Imagine an aircraft carrier deck absolutely covered in PrSM launchers, with a whole hanger deck below filled with reloads.

The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) is a new series of GPS-guided missiles, which will begin to replace ATACMS missiles in 2024. PrSM carries a newly designed area-effects warhead and has a range of 60–499 km (37–310 mi). -wiki

 

[JWBooth]

More targets for hypersonic missiles.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why does it take 8 years to fix a ship?

 

[JWBooth]

Why does it take 8 years to fix a ship?

For the same grift and graft reasons everthing else is over budget and fails to deliver in a timely manner.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

TRUMP Class

 

[Soldier30]

US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a large-scale construction program for the "Golden Fleet" and the Trump-class battleships. The new ships will be the largest in the history of the US Navy and will be equipped with hypersonic weapons, lasers, and capable of carrying nuclear weapons, cruise missiles, and railguns. It is worth noting that the last American battleship, the USS Wisconsin, an Iowa-class battleship, was decommissioned and transferred to a museum in 2006. The Iowa-class ships were decommissioned after World War II and periodically returned to service for service in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The first of the new battleships will be named USS Defiant. The construction is planned to cost $26 billion. The photo shows the armament of the future battleships. Two ships will be built initially, with plans to build up to 25 battleships in the future. The displacement of the American battleships will be approximately 30,000-40,000 tons. By comparison, the Russian nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Velikiy (Project 1144M) displaces 25,860 tons. In addition to the new class of battleships, the "Golden Fleet" envisions increasing the number of other types of warships and building 15 submarines, including a more compact and maneuverable class of frigates, previously announced by the US Navy.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Modern warships have no armor. A New Jersey class battleship could be bombarded by drones for a week and all that would need to be done is repaint where they hit, install new antennae, and sweep the decks.

This of course assumes the harpoon and tomahawk missile launchers have been replaced with vertical launch systems.

They are not bringing back old battleships. They are building new ones.

 

[westwall]

They are not bringing back old battleships. They are building new ones.

So long as they have armor they are good to go.

 

[Oddball]

Modern warships have no armor. A New Jersey class battleship could be bombarded by drones for a week and all that would need to be done is repaint where they hit, install new antennae, and sweep the decks.

This of course assumes the harpoon and tomahawk missile launchers have been replaced with vertical launch systems.

Trump obviously hasn't heard of the little skirmish known as the Battle of Midway....Capital ships are little more than bomb magnets.

Too many MIC clods in his ears.

 

[Oddball]

So long as they have armor they are good to go.

Not enough armor in the world to protect the superstructure and brains of the ship from hypersonic missiles.

 

[westwall]

Not enough armor in the world to protect the superstructure and brains of the ship from hypersonic missiles.

That's what laser defense weapons are made for. What was ridiculous was creating a "littoral combat ship" that was stealthy, but had no armor.

Stealth is useless when your purpose for the ship is to fight close to shore, where artillery and tanks can shoot at you.

It is the stupidest ******* waste of time I have seen in decades. These are the "experts" these leftoids are supporting.

 

[task0778]

I am not seeing the need for these new ships. Speeding untold trillions on this makes no fiscal sense. Doesn't anybody give a flyin' **** about the debt and deficits? The GOP used to be financially conservative, but they ain't no more. They're better than the democrats though.

 

[westwall]

I am not seeing the need for these new ships. Speeding untold trillions on this makes no fiscal sense. Doesn't anybody give a flyin' **** about the debt and deficits? The GOP used to be financially conservative, but they ain't no more. They're better than the democrats though.

It's actually possible to spend yourself out of debt. If your spending results in massive economic growth you are good to go.

I think that's what Trump is trying to do.

 

[eagle1462010]

Why does it take 8 years to fix a ship?

To build?

 

[task0778]

It's actually possible to spend yourself out of debt. If your spending results in massive economic growth you are good to go.

I think that's what Trump is trying to do.

Dude, that is ridiculous. Nobody, AND I MEAN NOBODY ever spends their way out of debt. You'd have to monetize the debt by printing or creating more money and that results in hyperinflation.

 

[Mac-7]

Trump obviously hasn't heard of the little skirmish known as the Battle of Midway....Capital ships are little more than bomb magnets.

Too many MIC clods in his ears.

The Trump Dept of War and US Navy are not proposing a New Jersey size battleship

And I dont think its done deal

I could see a compromise involving an equal tonnage divided between smaller ships

 

[eagle1462010]

The Trump Dept of War and US Navy are not proposing a New Jersey size battleship

And I dont think its done deal

I could see a compromise involving an equal tonnage divided between smaller ships

I would think the laser weapons would require a much larger ship.

 

[Mac-7]

I would think the laser weapons would require a much larger ship.

First generation might

But the IDF is already mounting them on trucks