USS Pinckney is a chonker
USS Pinckney is a chonker
Context: USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is the first of the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers to receive a cutting edge electronic warfare upgrade. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/navy-destroyer-looks-significantly-different-after-major-upgrade
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The US continues to push the bounds of what could be considered a destroyer. The Arleigh Burkes are already heavier than Atlanta class light cruisers and then this thing comes along with the extra chonk!
25 0 Replyit's all frigate - german navy probably
10 0 ReplyThe US continues to push the bounds of what could be considered a destroyer.
Japan: "Am I a joke to you?"
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ship classification nomenclature creep is real. never ends either.
6 0 ReplyIt's aproaching dragon ball levels of power creep and we ain't talking Namek saga or Android saga we're in Buu saga.
I swear to fuck someone needs to make a HMS Dreadnought equivalent so we can clean up this nomenclature bullshit.
3 0 ReplyI think automation is gonna clean a lot of this right up.
we'll be left with drones, and drone carriers. maybe a few humies on the drone carriers to do whatever can't be outright automated on at sea. and there's really no good reason to be a surface ship if all you're schlepping is drones.
1 0 ReplyRadar is kinda hard for subs. Hence air and missile defense are kinda hard for subs.
Comms with your drones is also kinda hard underwater. In fact: if you need to surface to launch and control your drones, why bother being a sub?
Drones will just be another weapon stuffed onto surface ships. Expanding the ever growing arsenal of these ships.
3 0 Replyyeah these limitations totally limit fire and forget munitions..... not at all.
a stealthy sub that just surfaced off your shore and released a hundred drone swarm doesn't need to stick around and wait for the fireworks.
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