Subject: Re: Those Trump Class "Battleships"
7. The ship isn’t nuclear powered because the US doesn’t have enough yards that can make them. The ones we have are being purposed for subs and carriers.

8. The ship isn’t 40k tons because the US doesn’t have enough yards that can build ships of that size. The ones we have are for carriers.

9. Someone on this board has written about the lack of capability of the US to build warships. That reality is asserting itself now and this ship is a compromise.

10. Missiles are expensive, you can’t carry very many of them to sea and they’re hard to reload at sea. The rail gun solves that and the Japanese may have figured them out…