Key Points
Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts
Experts described it as a “prestige project,” a “bomb magnet” and said that “this ship will never sail.”
Even if it were technically feasible, the cost of building the battleship would be prohibitive.
It’s going to take, minimum, 10 years to build, right? And that’s not counting any design, planning, and other ships that may be in progress at our shipyards. He’s never going to see it. So let’s just tell him we’re building it, and not.
Honestly, if I was some admiral trying to protect a bunch of R&D projects in development from Trump, I’d probably wrap as many of them as I could into a pitch for a big battleship with his name on it then spend the entire budget on the technologies that are supposedly going into the ship. Put basically no effort into the ship itself, just show him concept art and maybe send him a model or something to make him think progress is being made.
What do ya reckon they are doing
But he drew a picture himself on the back of a napkin, can’t they use that? They surely don’t need EXPERTS to design it, Trump’s an expert, no-one knows more about ships than him.
That is what they’re going to do … but in the meantime they’ll send a shit ton of money his way for the project.