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
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
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!
Japan: “Am I a joke to you?”
You’re not kidding.
apparently.
it’s all frigate - german navy probably
ship classification nomenclature creep is real. never ends either.
It’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.
I 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.
Radar 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.
yeah 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.