The U.S. military complex is about to add it’s most appropriately named vessels in history.
President Donald Trump has just announced that they will build a new Trump class warship. They will be up to 880 feet long with a displacement of 30,000 to 40,000 tons, making them the biggest surface combat vessels the US Navy has constructed since World War II.
They will be armed with new nuclear-capable hypersonic cruise missiles, slower-flying Tomahawk cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, missile defense interceptors and a rail gun (if they can figure out the power curve problem).
There are only about 3-5 major problems with this plan.
One is they can’t build ships on time or on budget, yet alone something this big.
They also lack the sailors to operate it, the space in shipyards and the workers to build it, and the raw materials like steel (which costs more even if they can get it because they are hitting ours with tariffs).
The biggest problem though is most modern theories say drones and newer missiles make large battleships obsolete and you should build a larger number of smaller and more maneuverable vessels.
However, if you goal is to build large and cumbersome, overly expensive, loud and ostentatious warships that are poorly suited to their role and will take forever to deliver, I can’t think of a better name for them.
I’m Paul Martin and that’s what I see looking Beyond the Headlines.
