President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by duxup » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship
navy.mil

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by bell-cot » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

Brings to mind Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus the Great's pride-and-joy warship Vasa.

And Germany's Wunderwaffe.

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by arthurcolle » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 1:44 AM UTC

bell-cot wrote: post #2

Brings to mind Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus the Great's pride-and-joy warship Vasa . And Germany's Wunderwaffe .

check out My Tank Is Fight! if you haven't

so many weird weapons developed over the years

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by xarope » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

xarope wrote: post #4

I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?

Yes but you have to account for the barely-functioning melted brain factor. Reality just can't compete when an old man goes "pew pew! zoom!"

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by alexnewman » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:24 AM UTC

At first glance this seems crazy. But what a battleship with a gun so powerful, that it can shoot down everything. Having a nuclear powered vessel that can shoot a railgun and laser might be battleship in size

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by euroderf » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:31 AM UTC

Rename it the Coup d'État class.

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by jqpabc123 » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:36 AM UTC

xarope wrote: post #4

I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?

Relevance is obviously not the Fuhrer's concern.

https://backintimetoday.com/hitlers-war-follies-the-10-blund...

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

alexnewman wrote: post #6

At first glance this seems crazy. But what a battleship with a gun so powerful, that it can shoot down everything. Having a nuclear powered vessel that can shoot a railgun and laser might be battleship in size

A new surface vehicle for naval warfare is absolutely bonkers in the modern era. Even in the littoral space where notionally you don't have the depth for a sub-surface launcher, the LCS project was a complete bust. For anything in deep water, a submarine platform is so much more useful for projecting force and not a sitting duck.

Re: President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship

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Post by bfrog » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 3:48 AM UTC

The Russia Ukraine war has shown big metal objects are liabilities in the cheap plentiful drone war of the future.