[bobbygoodlatte]

Are big-iron investments like this even useful for an outright shooting war with another major power? It feels like our defense budget could be better spent on more cost-effective, unmanned tech

[nradov]

Unmanned platforms have to launch from somewhere. Like a ship.

[thehappypm]

Hard to say.

The Ukraine war may not have a ton of lessons for a conflict involving great powers. So far Russia has held back from using its arsenal to its fullest (no nukes, not exactly firebombing Kiev to oblivion). Maybe a preview of a war in Taiwan, though I think that kind of conflict would be quite different