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Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Not only didn't need them. They are considered a tactical liability.
For the resources to build a battleship, they o could build a couple of cruisers. In aggregate those would be more flexible, have better survivability, and have more offensive capability
It is a stupid bloated vessel for the sake of some twisted sense of superficial extravagant while in truth being a subpar waste of a bunch of people's money. So I guess maybe it is worthy of being named Trump class.