Australian Beauties II

[RangerJoe]

Arnt Battleships supposed to be named after states? Even though this might be a Trump class, the naming should be USS Washington or USS New Mexico, right?

Also, did not WW2 teach us that the Aircraft Carrier and not the Battleship was the way to project force?

Don't prepare to fight the next war with the last wars tools, tactics, and strategy.

[Lobster]

Arnt Battleships supposed to be named after states? Even though this might be a Trump class, the naming should be USS Washington or USS New Mexico, right?

Also, did not WW2 teach us that the Aircraft Carrier and not the Battleship was the way to project force?

The U.S. doesn't have the shipyards, the labor force nor the money ($15 billion each) for the number of huge ships to replace the Burke destroyers. Hitler tried to do this same thing by making bigger and bigger tanks but it didn't work out so well. Like Stalin said, quantity has a quality of it's own. Many smaller ships with highly advanced systems and drone support would be a better strategy for today's seaforce. Ukraine has shown what tomorrows naval warfare will look like. It's not huge ships.

[Zovs]

Thanks RangerJoe, and Lobster,

Those were basically my thoughts as well.

[RangerJoe]

Arnt Battleships supposed to be named after states? Even though this might be a Trump class, the naming should be USS Washington or USS New Mexico, right?

Also, did not WW2 teach us that the Aircraft Carrier and not the Battleship was the way to project force?

The U.S. doesn't have the shipyards, the labor force nor the money ($15 billion each) for the number of huge ships to replace the Burke destroyers. Hitler tried to do this same thing by making bigger and bigger tanks but it didn't work out so well. Like Stalin said, quantity has a quality of it's own. Many smaller ships with highly advanced systems and drone support would be a better strategy for today's seaforce. Ukraine has shown what tomorrows naval warfare will look like. It's not huge ships.

This ship would be the main force projector in an area. It would have to have smaller escorts which could eliminate most if not all of the short ranged threats.

As far as naming goes, the system that was previously used appears to be gone. Submarines named after fish and other aquatic creatures, aircraft carriers after battles, and so on.

[gamer78]

Ukraine has shown what tomorrows naval warfare will look like. It's not huge ships.

Ukraine and Syria didn't show anything. Anyway not to politics, no safe air&land zone for an early NATO member but then asking EU for military expenditure, very much irony.

[Zovs]

Arnt Battleships supposed to be named after states? Even though this might be a Trump class, the naming should be USS Washington or USS New Mexico, right?

Also, did not WW2 teach us that the Aircraft Carrier and not the Battleship was the way to project force?

The U.S. doesn't have the shipyards, the labor force nor the money ($15 billion each) for the number of huge ships to replace the Burke destroyers. Hitler tried to do this same thing by making bigger and bigger tanks but it didn't work out so well. Like Stalin said, quantity has a quality of it's own. Many smaller ships with highly advanced systems and drone support would be a better strategy for today's seaforce. Ukraine has shown what tomorrows naval warfare will look like. It's not huge ships.

This ship would be the main force projector in an area. It would have to have smaller escorts which could eliminate most if not all of the short ranged threats.

As far as naming goes, the system that was previously used appears to be gone. Submarines named after fish and other aquatic creatures, aircraft carriers after battles, and so on.

Thanks Ranger Joe

[RangerJoe]

The U.S. doesn't have the shipyards, the labor force nor the money ($15 billion each) for the number of huge ships to replace the Burke destroyers. Hitler tried to do this same thing by making bigger and bigger tanks but it didn't work out so well. Like Stalin said, quantity has a quality of it's own. Many smaller ships with highly advanced systems and drone support would be a better strategy for today's seaforce. Ukraine has shown what tomorrows naval warfare will look like. It's not huge ships.

This ship would be the main force projector in an area. It would have to have smaller escorts which could eliminate most if not all of the short ranged threats.

As far as naming goes, the system that was previously used appears to be gone. Submarines named after fish and other aquatic creatures, aircraft carriers after battles, and so on.

Thanks Ranger Joe

You are most welcome Zov!

[Aurelian]

USS Alabama, not ready yet.

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[Aurelian]

Tirpitz painted as civilian buildings,

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[Aurelian]

USS Oregon

[Aurelian]

Under fire

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[Aurelian]

Charlemagne

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[Curtis Lemay]

USS Oregon

USS Oregon (BB-3) was the last of the Indiana-class BBs. Note that I posted a pic of the USS Indiana (BB-1) here: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 9#p5146559

[gamer78]

Holy war from Charlemagne to Australian Beauties II...

[Aurelian]

Hood and Renown.

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[Aurelian]

Hood 1934.

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[Lobster]

An interesting read concerning the demise of the HMS Hood. https://historyfirst.com/hms-hood-sunk- ... -bismarck/

Hood 1934.
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[Aurelian]

Thanks. That is a good read.

[Aurelian]

SMS Seydlitz after Jutand.

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[Aurelian]

HMS Tiger

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