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Maybe I'm missing the joke. There aren't any battleships in the navy anymore, are there? Submarines will be around as long as they ensure MAD. I worry carriers

by jfoutz 9y ago

Maybe I'm missing the joke. There aren't any battleships in the navy anymore, are there? Submarines will be around as long as they ensure MAD. I worry carriers will be like ships of the line after the invention of iron hulls. Huge investment instantly obsolete by new technology. The u.s. Is in a great position to repeat the British empire's mistakes.

paulddraper 9y ago
> There aren't any battleships in the navy anymore, are there? That's correct. To your earlier point :), post-Cold War consensus is that the traditional battleship should be replaced by destroyers with modern targeting capabilities. So the US Navy is somewhat in between ships for naval gunfire support. The Zumwalt-class destroyers [1] were supposed to take over here but that's been a bit of boondoggle. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer