Honestly, the fact that they use fictional artwork for the thumbnails is such clickbaity shit. That’s actually artwork of the Kujira from Cyberpunk 2077. Here’s a pic of the actual in game model.
That’s what it would actually look like if the US military tried to make one of these things
And the slippery stealth ship project will only cost $100 billion even though the ship is detectable by radar and it’s prone to sinking. Then the project will delayed and the cost will first balloon to $200 billion. The saga has just begun.
It’ll run into problems when the demanded “VTOL drydocking capability” melts the hull and causes steam explosions to par-broil the crew.
You say that but the Zumwalt class legit is the F35 in boat form. They cannot even afford to buy ammo for it so now the few they have will need to get new turrets and/or change mission roles. Also broke in the fucking Panama Canal https://www.businessinsider.com/destroyer-zumwalts-big-guns-lack-ammo-and-navy-may-just-scrap-them-2018-11
https://www.naval-technology.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/01/Image-2-Gerald-R.-Ford-class.jpg
I used to watch carriers leave San Diego every weekend and couldn’t tell this apart from a Nimitz-class at a glance. The island looks a little more modern/further back and the deck storage space might serve as a runway now. Shame we don’t use CVNs as humanitarian platforms. They’re amazing ships that can power and desalinate water for an entire city with a 25~ strong medical team, surgical facilities, and deck/hanger space for huge numbers of civilians.
Shame we don’t use CVNs as humanitarian platforms.
Sending doctors around the world for no reason other than international solidarity? What are we, Cuba?
Seriously though, the military has done some decent humanitarian work off of these in the past while dragging all of their war equipment with them. Take that shit off and make it a full time disaster relief ship.
Now instead imagine we used them to establish air superiority over countries without air forces, otherwise floating them as 6000-strong nuclear sarcophagi filled with carcinogens.
The USS Mercy/Comfort were the only two ships I would have liked to be stationed on but corpsmen couldn’t get orders to them so much as we could west coast hospitals that rotated staff on them. With climate change mainly hitting coastal cities it’d be neat to avoid another Hurricane Katrina where the ground hospitals are so overwhelmed that doctors have to go into mass casualty triage mode. A thousand-bed floating hospital could do a lot of good if we weren’t a terrorist empire.
Gaming PCs are getting ridiculous
Why does the middle glow red lol
Omg wait forreal they used a video game pic for an article about a real thing?
Almost every single youtube video about new and upcoming military tech will use video game concept art and sci-fi renders for their thumbnails.
Is it Death Star colors on purpose orrrrrrr…
