@moonbus saidWe had one of these off the coast of Cape May, NJ for years and years. You could see it from the shore. They had abandoned it there and you could still see it until it had deteriorated completely.
If ships can be made of concrete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship
then they can be made of gold, too. Not advisable, however.
Not sure if it is still there. My dad's parents had a little house about 100 yards from the actual point in Cape May.
"The last battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy was the USS Missouri (BB-63), which entered service on June 11, 1944,
as the final and most powerful of the Iowa-class battleships, famously serving as the site for the Japanese surrender
in WWII and later seeing action in the Korean and Gulf Wars before becoming a ?museum ship"
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81 years since the US commissioned a battleship, and now they have many planned. Stranger things.
@Earl-of-Trumps saidThere is reason for that. There obsolete. dump's just trying to put his sordid name on something else.
"The last battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy was the USS Missouri (BB-63), which entered service on June 11, 1944,
as the final and most powerful of the Iowa-class battleships, famously serving as the site for the Japanese surrender
in WWII and later seeing action in the Korean and Gulf Wars before becoming a ?museum ship"
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81 years since the US commissioned a battleship, and now they have many planned. Stranger things.
@YEAH-BOY saidBattleships are only good for one thing now - floating off the coast of weaker countries for gunboat diplomacy. That's what Trump wants them for. For that they need armor against artillery which is obsolete in actual warfare.
There is reason for that. There obsolete. dump's just trying to put his sordid name on something else.
Without armor it's a battlecruiser not a battleship.
In many ways it's just an upsized Zumwalt which itself was considered a failure.
@AThousandYoung saidIt's what Trump be remembered for: expensive failures. Just like his bankrupt casino.
Battleships are only good for one thing now - floating off the coast of weaker countries for gunboat diplomacy. That's what Trump wants them for. For that they need armor against artillery which is obsolete in actual warfare.
Without armor it's a battlecruiser not a battleship.
In many ways it's just an upsized Zumwalt which itself was considered a failure.
@Earl-of-Trumps saidThe ship itself can’t go bankrupt, but it’s a waste of military funding to invest in obsolete technology. You know why the last one was commissioned 80 yrs ago and is now a museum ship. Trump might as well build a fleet of golden dirigibles with his name emblazoned on the side of each one. Like battleships, they would be sitting ducks: easy prey to submarines and missiles.
Battleships can't go bankrupt 🙂
The first one to be commissioned will be the first since 1944, the USS Missouri, or Big Mo.
That was one nasty ship.
Trump just wants to put his name on something big. It’s a pregnant example of his rampant inferiority complex, that he thinks a battleship would strike fear in the hearts of other nations, and that THAT would make America great (again).