CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down12
arrow-up1116arrow-down1external-linkTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comCharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareJohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up80·21 days agoSo they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 days agoPlated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 days agoSeems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoI mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII. Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoThey were actually still worthwhile up into Korea but the Korean war is the weird middle child between WW2 and Vietnam that everyone forgets about.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoIt’s not that I forgot about the Korean War, it’s that I wasn’t aware it had any significant naval component for which battleships were relevant.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoThey were used for artillery along coastal regions, while not exactly the designated purpose of such ships it was highly effective. But yeah it was basically the last hoora of an aging design that had already started to become obsolete.
minus-squareHeikki2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoIt will literally have a bridge to nowhere
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoAlso completely incapable of telling friend from foe
So they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
Don’t forget tacky.
Plated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
Seems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
I mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII.
Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.
They were actually still worthwhile up into Korea but the Korean war is the weird middle child between WW2 and Vietnam that everyone forgets about.
It’s not that I forgot about the Korean War, it’s that I wasn’t aware it had any significant naval component for which battleships were relevant.
They were used for artillery along coastal regions, while not exactly the designated purpose of such ships it was highly effective. But yeah it was basically the last hoora of an aging design that had already started to become obsolete.
It will literally have a bridge to nowhere
Also completely incapable of telling friend from foe