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New From Olbermann: A Timeline of Treason

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Targetpractice7/19/2017 12:00:55 am PDT

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

The Navy is probably going to end up putting a pair of these on every surface vessel except hospital ships and (possibly) tenders. I predict there’ll be a move away from carriers and manned aircraft towards distributed fleets of smaller corvettes armed with lasers for point defense and railguns for mass computer guided multiple launch simultaneous impact bombardment. Basically we’re going to have the function of battleships again in the form of a much harder to engage swarm of smaller stealthier ships.

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Manned aircraft may end up being rendered obsolete, but carriers will remain because they offer too much flexibility to the modern navy to go away. But I can see the DDG(X) and FFG(X) programs leading to future ships of the line that will carry the equivalent of the firepower of an Iowa-class battleship.