XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:53:49 -0500 (EST), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   > |   
   > | On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of   
   > | "battleships" that will be 100 times more powerful than   
   > | previous battleships and larger than any other surface   
   > | combatant on the oceans. The ship's purported   
   > | characteristics are so extraordinary that the announcement   
   > | will surely spark immense discussion. However, there is   
   > | little need for said discussion because this ship will   
   > | never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion   
   > | each to build, and contravene the Navy's new concept of   
   > | operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future   
   > | administration will cancel the program before the first   
   > | ship hits the water.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
   Says a group of "analysts" who have no actual involvement in the   
   military.   
      
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