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In reply to the discussion: 'Going full North Korean': Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement [View all]

Wounded Bear

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3. Battleships have been obsolete since the end of WWII...
Reply to turbinetree (Original post)
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:33 PM
Dec 22

useful for shore bombardment, I guess, but for little else. Mostly they're just a big target.

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'Going full North Korean': Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement [View all] turbinetree Dec 22 OP
HE'S putting his name on stuff BOSSHOG Dec 22 #1
He's reaching peak megalomania, or FTD confabulation. Not really sure which ms liberty Dec 22 #2
Battleships have been obsolete since the end of WWII... Wounded Bear Dec 22 #3
Hell they even used some for nuclear tests..............in the South Pacific............ turbinetree Dec 22 #4
Beat me to it. Aircraft carriers dominated in WW2 Martin Eden Dec 23 #14
20-25? Battleships? A quarter of the way through the 21st century? rsdsharp Dec 22 #5
His cerebral cortex dementia is really taking a bite out that brain............one side is his twisted ego and turbinetree Dec 22 #6
The Titanic Trump Class RockCreek Dec 22 #7
The steam powered screen doors on the subs Johonny Dec 22 #8
I'm USN but don't know, don't the named have to be dead to be on a ship? UTUSN Dec 22 #9
Here you go...............note they can be named after states and cities.......... turbinetree Dec 23 #12
Thanks, but am reacting to naming by people - Carter, Ford, Reagan AFTER DEATH - how KRASNOV?! UTUSN Dec 23 #13
Putin wins again! Kid Berwyn Dec 22 #10
The very idea wendyb-NC Dec 23 #11
Here are some previews of trump's new "battleship" LetMyPeopleVote Dec 25 #15
No American president has ever named ships or institutions after himself--until now. LetMyPeopleVote Dec 26 #16
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