Donald Trump and the US Navy just put the ’N’ in the BBGN — Battleship, Guided Missile, NUCLEAR. As Steve Green points out, what’s the use of having a warship defended by sharks with frikin’ LASER BEAMS in their heads if it can’t sail round the world un-refueled for FIFTY YEARS?
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To deal with Communist China you don’t need to put all your eggs in one basket and call in an Arsenal ship. You have 15 hulking great islands: Japanese islands, Philippines islands, South Korea. Even part of Malaysia is in range and they are all loaded up with all sorts of fun weapons. Trumps been shipping stuff in since his first term. The Taiwan war, if it happens, is about defense in depth. Taiwan is line one; Japan and the Philippines is line two and with Tinian and Guam as the goal keepers in the rear. It will be Chinese… Read more »
There are three town/ cities in the USA called Trump, the coastguard cutter USCGC William Trump (named after a Normandy landing hero) and a general Trump from WW2. Remember what they did with the forts Biden renamed? They found a veteran hero with the same name as the confederate. So the Trump battle ship is just a steel troll for the USA enemies and the Dumocrats in congress. The name’s a placeholder.
The most common ballistic system on all modern Western ships is the humble mortar tube. There’s a dozen on the destroyers. These launch antisubmarine buoys, smoke and flares, hot chaff and radar jammers. Some are humble line guns. One officer made the mistake of putting his hat on the mortar in a drill and watched his hat blown into the sea 5 miles away. He had to pay for it.
Bill and the boys keep missing the obvious advantage of a defense alliance. Every allied port can reload a VLC system because we all have them on our American made ships. All NATO ports, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, 8 states in the middle east and three or four locations in Australia. You don’t need to go back to Hawaii to reload. The carrier groups off the UAE and Saudi Arabia is in full supply from those ports. Crew rotation is by the local airport and a Boeing. The only reason for a trip home is for maintenance of the super clasified… Read more »