The Great Battleship Debate: gCaptain’s Konrad Takes On AEI’s Zack Cooper

 

The Defiant Class battleship proposed by the administration is now proposed to be nuclear powered.  The cost is $17B before added nuclear power costs are considered. There are pros and cons about this new class of ship which may be multiple vessels.  The Navy has been petty reserved in its comments other than artist conceptions of what it looks like.

 

If you open the link you will see an article but more important there is a video to a hourlong debate by a proponent for the battleship and by a critic of the battleship.  I recommend that you listen to it because it brings out a lot of interesting points in terms of choke points, merchant ships, distributive fires, submarines, aircraft carriers and damage control.  I have not seen anything like this debate and it is fun to watch.  The moderator is one of the nation’s top merchant marine experts.  Enjoy.

 

Doug