U.S. President Donald Trump calls the vessel a new class of “battleship” graced by his own name, but China just calls the U.S. Navy’s latest concept a larger and “easier target” for its growing array of anti-ship drones and missiles.
A day after Trump’s Dec. 22 announcement at Mar-a-Lago that he had ordered the construction of a “Trump class” of possibly 20 to 25 battleships, China’s Global Times, a state media outlet, carried an interview with naval researcher Zhang Junshe stating that the type of warship envisioned by Trump would be a ripe target for China’s anti-ship weapons, including the so-called “carrier killer” DF-21D ballistic missile.
“The large size of a battleship also makes it more vulnerable and potentially an easier target, particularly when it is densely loaded with munitions,” according to Zhang, a researcher at the People’s Liberation Army Naval Military Academic Research Institute.
In the wake of the announcement, some analysts suggested the battleship proposal may ultimately be not be realistic and instead a move by Trump to jolt awake the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which lags far behind China.
Everyone has called them that for decades, half a century or more. Big battleships are a thing of the past, ww2 their last hurrah. They are too vulnerable and with the weapons out there, it’s better to have more smaller ships than a single big one that could be taken out with one missile or torpedo or mine breaking through.
This is like Hitler getting personally involved in weapons decisions in the war. At one point he took machine guns off the top of tanks for whatever reason he got into his head, determined he was the smartest person in the world. Turned out making them even more of sitting ducks to infantry on the eastern front.
Likewise our leader is surrounded by yes men. No one will tell him he’s wrong, and if they did they would be removed from their positions. So you get outdated super battleships rather than the frigates we have been making.
Put Trump on it and use it as a decoy.
Motherfucker doesn’t understand you get things named after you by people who respect you after you’re gone, not by your own decision. Classless moron.
US: The Trump Centre for Destroying American Hegemony. :applause:
China: :popcorn:
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
He knows. He just craves the attention.
It’s just a scam like everything else he does, a mechanism to move money around and funnel it to his political patrons, friends, and family. No doubt everyone involved knows that battle ships are basically obsolete among the great powers. It’ll end up being a comical piece of shit, but several people will have made a lot of money off the contracts.
That’s the thing, putting his name on everything, being supremely corrupt, does he not realize after he’s gone his name will be removed? Does he think even is successor will continue to revere his name rather than blame problems on him?
Or does he not care? Like the peace prize, even though he knows everyone around his is pretending to think he’s great he doesn’t care? It’s really a case study in late stage mental illness. Where his illness is laid bare by dementia and old age and any pretense is stripped of his actions.
… instead a move by Trump to jolt awake the U.S. shipbuilding industry, which lags far behind China.
I think they’re giving shit-for-brains way too much credit here.
This always happens.
Trump: I’m gonna poop in the rose garden!
Sycophants: Of course the president isn’t going to poop in the rose garden, the woke media is crazy.
Trump (while pooping in the rise garden): I’m pooping in the rose garden!
Sycophants: The rose garden is where terrorists come from.
He’s definitely shat in the Rose Garden. Some probably leaked down his leg and touched the ground there.
More sanewashing from the complicit media
Or some low level christo-fascist management dude at the heritage foundation, that knows nothing about anything had an idea. And now Americans will pay their lives and waste of taxes.
The US navy is way bigger than China’s, so I would question that the US shipbuilding industry lags China. I would also recognize that contractors wanting more money spent pump articles warning us about China and saying China is outpacing us.
Like in the cold war, the ussr was constantly overhyped in capability to justify more spending.
I know China is quick building ships. I do however doubt they are anywhere near the US, no matter how many ships they are working on right now or what. I also highly doubt the US should increase yet again our navies size.
It’s called the Trump class because it’s full of Bubba’s sea-men
A fart class boat. Probably be fat and ugly and barely able to actually DO anything…
I’m surprised they didn’t just stay quiet in public (and laugh their asses off in private). China usually seems to keep their cards fairly close to their chest…
Good point, but look at the catapults it’ll have for launching fighters. Proper traditional steam catapults with analogue warmth, none of that modern digital rubbish.
And they’ll paint camouflage all over them, for “stealth”.
“China calls…” and it’s some dude.
Imagine if newspapers used this convention for random American civilian citizens in headlines too.
some dude
It’s not like he’s a random civilian, he literally works for the PLA.
So do millions of others.
Who would have thought …
Ho wait everyone
