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@no1marauder said
https://www.csis.org/analysis/golden-fleets-battleship-will-never-sail

Trump and Hegseth could announce they're building a fleet of Super Duper Trump Death Stars and you gullible saps would be saying what a great idea it was.
csis.org.

really? could we expect anything differently?

So, Trump's battleship will never sail? They're not supposed to.
I suspect that csis.org people don't know their ass from their elbow, mate.

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@no1marauder

Are you done??

crimminy, dude.

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@Earl-of-Trumps said
csis.org.

really? could we expect anything differently?

So, Trump's battleship will never sail? They're not supposed to.
I suspect that csis.org people don't know their ass from their elbow, mate.
Too lazy to read it, I gather.

Doubt if you ever bother to you'll find any flaws in its analysis.

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@moonbus said
Why do you think the US has not built any battleships since 1944? It's obsolete technology. Its guns don't have the range of the planes on a carrier. Iowa-class battleship guns had a range of about 40kms/25 miles. Ridiculously close to any enemy installation. They had only 9 such guns: pretty pathetic compared to the effective striking power and range of an aircraft carrier. ...[text shortened]... s (with in-flight refueling).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_carrier
Yes, there is a reason that modern naval strategy focuses on these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_battle_group

Many ships, each built exclusively for their function.

We don't need no stinkin' battleships.

Too big, too expensive. Too many eggs in one basket.

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@Earl-of-Trumps said
then why are you blaming donald trump for the bogus reestablishment of battleships?

Kimosabe, you speak with fork-ed tongue
There is a kind of ignorance which is culpable. Hannah Arendt wrote about this in "The Banality of Evil."

Also: Ex 23:2.

I fault him for being the ignorant stooge of evil.

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@moonbus said
There is a kind of ignorance which is culpable. Hannah Arendt wrote about this in "The Banality of Evil."

Also: Ex 23:2.

I fault him for being the ignorant stooge of evil.
He gives up much for temporary popularity.

The innate danger of narcissism.

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@Earl-of-Trumps said
csis.org.

really? could we expect anything differently?

So, Trump's battleship will never sail? They're not supposed to.
I suspect that csis.org people don't know their ass from their elbow, mate.
BTW, the US Navy is a rather tradition bound institution and still uses the word "sail" to describe the movement of its ships however they are actually powered.

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@Earl-of-Trumps said
then why are you blaming donald trump for the bogus reestablishment of battleships?

Kimosabe, you speak with fork-ed tongue
It's embarassing that this country runs on the fever dreams of a madman, that's why.

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@no1marauder said
BTW, the US Navy is a rather tradition bound institution and still uses the word "sail" to describe the movement of its ships however they are actually powered.
And the sailors are proud to be part of the grand tradition of sailing ships protecting this country. I'm sure they're much less proud of this president's mad obsession with the stand-off destruction of motorboats. It's like swatting bugs with a sledgehammer. Nothing to be "proud" of there.

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@Suzianne said
And the sailors are proud to be part of the grand tradition of sailing ships protecting this country. I'm sure they're much less proud of this president's mad obsession with the stand-off destruction of motorboats. It's like swatting bugs with a sledgehammer. Nothing to be "proud" of there.
Modern warfare is trending towards smaller, less expensive, unmanned, remote-controlled weapons, such as drones, in heavy use by Russia against Ukraine, for example.