US Navy battleships are named after states. In addition, the name of the class of any ship is usually the name of the first of its class. I think there has been an exception or two, but I am not sure.
Finally, ships are not named for living people. And the ones that do have some connection with the Navy, usually service. Now this might not be a huge problem because it takes years to build a ship and he probably doesn't have that many left.
He claims they will be the largest ever built. But also between 30k and 40k tons. Now the Iowa class was 45k tons, dry. A lot more when it sailed. And then there was the Yamato at 72k...
But, ok. Those ships were heavily armored. The lesson from WWII is that armor won't stop 1000 pound bombs. So maybe he is babbling about length and width, but who knows? Warships are usually classed by displacement, though.
But then he talks about big guns, lasers, rail guns and missiles. Rail guns are a non-starter. Erosion of the rails is an insurmountable problem with current technology. Lasers and missiles makes sense. Big guns don't. Other than bragging rights, "mine is bigger than yours!", big guns are useless. They are useless against ships. It takes too long at range and ships can dodge. For land, you have to get too close against any opponent who can afford more than bows and arrows. Lasers makes sense for anti-air and drone defenses. Missiles rule and a big ship with lots of missiles is called an "arsenal ship" and isn't really a battleship unless you just have given up making sense. Some arsenal ship proposals are unmanned, the targeting and firing of the missiles is done by others in the battlespace like can be done with jets across the network.
All I can think of is someone, Steve Miller perhaps?, is into Hearts of Iron. |
