President unveils new 'Trump class' fleet of battleships

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27. It is questionable .....

..... whether the vessel itself ever would be built

From the WaPo article about the announcement:

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser in the defense and security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. He questioned whether the vessel itself ever would be built, noting that its significant size will saddle the battleship with similar limitations and vulnerabilities as the nation’s other large warships. The Navy for decades has emphasized a smaller and distributed fleet as a way to counter evolving technologies such as drone warfare.

“There’s going to be a lot of ink spilled over this ship — but this ship is never going to sail,” Cancian predicted. “It’s going to take four, five, six years to develop a ship this large that is so unlike current designs.”

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