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2015-09-01 Science & Technology

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And sharks with frikin lasers attached to their heads.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-09-01 01:20|| 2015-09-01 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget a long spike on the bow, so that they can ram enemy ships. (sarcasm)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-09-01 07:54|| 2015-09-01 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 THe fundamental problem of the battleship is that it was totally outranged by the aircraft carrier and that even the mighty Yamato could be sunk by a carrier at the cost of a few aircraft. That meant an exchange rate of two or three thousand men against twenty or thirty and a gazillion dollars (in 2015 terms) a against a, by comparison tiny amount of money and resources.

For the article it looks more like a paper written by sfi-addict teenager than by qualifiued personel. Just think in the "ultra-strong composites" (I don't doubt by 2050 there will also be ultra-string explosives) and the 3D printers making drones (with all their electronics requiring silicon pure to about one atom of something else in a _billion_ atoms of silicon. Also apparently those "experts" didn't even think in equipping it with Gauss guns in order to fill the range gap with aircraft carriers. For the drones, if your primary weapon is a fleet of drones then you are not a battleship but an aircraft carrier that happens to be operating unmanned vehicles.

Posted by JFM 2015-09-01 07:57|| 2015-09-01 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I am not sure paper written by a a sci-fi addict teenage accurataly depicts this text. Drunk, high on crack sci-fi addict teenager would becloser to the target.

Posted by JFM 2015-09-01 08:01|| 2015-09-01 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The object is to deliver ordnance on target at a specific point or target. The fiddlely part is how much ordnance, cause delivering a 1 kiloton device would usually take out most targets.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-01 09:33|| 2015-09-01 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 How about a battleship with Gauss guns?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-01 09:37|| 2015-09-01 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Just hope that the spec sheet excludes Lucas as the electronics supplier (unless they really want to go to The Dark Side)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-09-01 14:45|| 2015-09-01 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the future is subs that can deploy drones and or ships that can deploy a dozen disposable PT-type boats. Consider the ships expendable and you can cut the crew down to nothing.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-09-01 14:58|| 2015-09-01 14:58|| Front Page Top

#9 He forgot the Phasers and Photon Torpedoes.

And of course the Wave Motion Gun in the bow.

What's a swimming drone? Wouldn't that be a marine drone or unmanned boat?

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-09-01 17:49|| 2015-09-01 17:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Need to get going mining the unobtanium for the hull

Posted by OldSpook 2015-09-01 22:08|| 2015-09-01 22:08|| Front Page Top

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