At first glance this seems crazy. But what a battleship with a gun so powerful, that it can shoot down everything. Having a nuclear powered vessel that can shoot a railgun and laser might be battleship in size
A new surface vehicle for naval warfare is absolutely bonkers in the modern era. Even in the littoral space where notionally you don't have the depth for a sub-surface launcher, the LCS project was a complete bust. For anything in deep water, a submarine platform is so much more useful for projecting force and not a sitting duck.
The Russia Ukraine war has shown big metal objects are liabilities in the cheap plentiful drone war of the future.
Rename it the Coup d'État class.
I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?
Yes but you have to account for the barely-functioning melted brain factor. Reality just can't compete when an old man goes "pew pew! zoom!"
Relevance is obviously not the Fuhrer's concern.
https://backintimetoday.com/hitlers-war-follies-the-10-blund...
Brings to mind Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus the Great's pride-and-joy warship Vasa.
And Germany's Wunderwaffe.
check out My Tank Is Fight! if you haven't
so many weird weapons developed over the years
At first glance this seems crazy. But what a battleship with a gun so powerful, that it can shoot down everything. Having a nuclear powered vessel that can shoot a railgun and laser might be battleship in size
A new surface vehicle for naval warfare is absolutely bonkers in the modern era. Even in the littoral space where notionally you don't have the depth for a sub-surface launcher, the LCS project was a complete bust. For anything in deep water, a submarine platform is so much more useful for projecting force and not a sitting duck.