[xarope]

I thought the BB class was no longer relevant in today's modern, missile and drone oriented naval battle fields?

[BugsJustFindMe]

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!"

[bell-cot]

Yes-ish. In a serious fight against a peer-ish level adversary, the RoI on such a ship looks very dubious.

But short of that, a huge warship can have great prestige & intimidation value - assuming that it is competently designed, and built, and outfitted, and operated. Naval history is swarming with only-on-paper designs for big warships. And a fair number of real-steel warships which were cripples, glass cannons, or sitting ducks because of incompetence somewhere in that chain.

(Also, the USN is referring to it as a BBG, not BB - https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pre... )

[xarope]

I stand corrected, my memory recalled the old star fleet battles BB class(!)

[Amezarak]

If you mean in terms of armament, this ship would have more missiles than any other class in the US fleet by a wide margin.

If you mean as a threat, the USN has ships sitting in the Red Sea as the Houthis and Iranians and whoever else sends off drones and missiles and they've all been fine.

[jqpabc123]

Relevance is obviously not the Fuhrer's concern.

https://backintimetoday.com/hitlers-war-follies-the-10-blund...

[deeg]

It reminded me about how Hitler supposedly pushed for larger, heavier tank designs. Even he didn't name them after himself, though.

[rsynnott]

I mean, this isn’t going to actually happen. It’s just ego-stroking for mad king Donald.

But yep. Really they died before that; the last battleship ever built was competed in 1946, and scrapped in 1960. It was aircraft carriers that killed them off, really, not missiles and drones.