Trump's New Battleship Will Never Sail

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7. Build more carriers if anything. Or 4 Aegis class cruisers for same price. Agree, we'll never see one Trump class.

Real thing the Navy needs to work on is surface ships that can reload their missile batteries quickly while at sea. Almost all present vertical launch missile systems, the backbone of anti ballistic missile and anti air protection for the fleet have to return to port to be reloaded. China especially has taken note and has built enough missiles and rockets to simply overload the defense capacity of the fleet. Sure they have to fire 500 units in carefully timed coordination to have maybe 50 get thru but that will be devastating to the US and allies in ships and sailors. And yes, US long range bombers will exact a high price in return but the US will see losses that will take years to replace and stagger the US public. And assuming the war continues, China's production capacity to replace far exceeds the US and allies. One can expect that along with attacking surface combatants, in an all out war, China will eventually strike South Korean and Japanese military production facilities as they are more capable in the near term than anything the US has.