…what about a battleship with turret-catapult A10 float planes?..
Design battleship to the brim with CIWS
Have a few token main guns
Park ship inside the enemy’s missile range to theoretically fire guns
Spend entire hostility mulching their missiles as they focus on you
Eh if it’s big enough just use something with orbital velocity.
Orbital battleships will take it out.
With the Wave Motion Gun?
That Wii accessory? Yeah that’s the one.
I think the Yamato predates the Wii.
According to “experts”.
With the success of drones in Ukraine, I wonder if the future’s just going to be midget drone-mothership subs.
Carrier Has Arrived
I’m in for outrageous Ace Combat style drone carriers with their own point defense.
https://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Arsenal_Bird
And conventional warhead ballistic missile subs with drone launchers:
https://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/Hrimfaxi
It’s “last second” MIRV too, so more politically correct.
The Japanese had things figured out in 2004, lol.
midget drone-mothership subs.
So is it a the mothership that’s a drone, or the midget subs? The latter would make more sense.
The subs contain lots of drones, but the subs are unmanned, making them drones, and they’re launched by a bigger mothership sub that’s also a drone. All manned by midgets pretending to be AI, of course.
It would be a regular sized sub that’s a drone mothership, crewed entirely by midgets
Drones must be terrifying for midgets.
Maybe, but they are our last defense against nano bots.
bro just raise the radar bro the horizon will be further away bro totally time for countermeasures bro
Just make a hovering AWACS that can hold U2 elevation. Then the gunship could hit targets across the pacific.
ZEPPELINS ARE BACK BABY
Rigid frame airship.
The term “Zeppelin” makes people nervous. They think they’re made with lead.
Modern Zeppelin are semi-rigid 😛
And ribbed for her pleasure.
At that point it would be easier for it to be an orbital (intraplanetary?) platform, pic for reference https://files.catbox.moe/cejyk6.jpg
but then we wouldn’t be defeating the whining about water battleships and the horizon
Plenty of horizon in low orbit!
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Y not tethered awacs weatherballon??
massively parallel synthetic aperture awacs via drone swarm
The Pagoda Mast was a good idea, but not tall enough. 40m? C’mon, with modern tech we can do 100m easy.
But does it go “brrrrrrrrrrt” ?
Scale it up.
KABOOM > brrrrrrrt
Plus the 16" guns can fire nuclear shells. It’s like the Davy Crockett’s big brother.
Imma let you finish, but a gatling gun made of 16" guns is strictly better than a regular 16" gun.
See also: This unit from Supreme Commander
Gets lasered out*
