Battleships were largely obsolescent by the beginning of WW2. The new "Trump Class" ships, if actually built will

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23. The ship being proposed is not a "battleship" in the classic sense

And it is not the frigate that people are talking about, either. It is a heavily armed 40,000 ton class vessel, the design of which started long before Trump got involved. More like a large cruiser, but they gotta suck it up to Trump.

Whether a ship of that size is truly useful is unknown, but you'd best be sure China is working on something like it already. They are cranking out new ships and new designs like pancakes, while we debate over shipyard worker pay.

Our Navy has been decimated by poor leadership and stupid decisions for a couple of decades now, what with the (premature) cancellations, and poor planning of the LCS, the Zumwald and the ridiculous design mods of the Constellation class. The new frigate design is basically a small upgrade of the latest Coast Guard cutters, and will not be armed well enough to survive a day if open war reaks out with China.

The odds of this new class of ship ever getting built is somewhere between zero and an ice-cubes chance in hell.