Battleship reformers are unironically more fanatical and non-credible than A-10 reformers

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.
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- At that point it would be easier for it to be an orbital (intraplanetary?) platform, pic for reference https://files.catbox.moe/cejyk6.jpg
- Y not tethered awacs weatherballon??
The Pagoda Mast was a good idea, but not tall enough. 40m? C'mon, with modern tech we can do 100m easy.

With the success of drones in Ukraine, I wonder if the future's just going to be midget drone-mothership subs.

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.
- It would be a regular sized sub that's a drone mothership, crewed entirely by midgets
- 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.
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Military planning like that is exceedingly difficult and we're almost always wrong. Like fixed fortifications, in history there's at least 6 major moves away from fixed fortifications because they became "obsolete". A few years later some new design or invention comes about and suddenly fixed fortifications are en vogue again.

In this case I think the definition of a battleship will just change like it did for dread/pre-dread ships. Eventually I think it will be twin high velocity low throw weight railguns in a all or nothing armored extremely low freeboard stealth hull.
- Battleships being at the center of naval plans obviously changed. But, I think you're right that something battleshippy will probably still exist.
  
  I mean, look how long it took for the spear to go away. With bayonets you could argue that they've never gone away. But, they're now a secondary thing, rather than the primary thing armies are designed around.
  
  I could imagine a future where a sea-tank exists, something that can take a hit and attack with direct-fire weapons. Having said that, the war in Ukraine is showing that a multi-million dollar tank can be taken out with a few hundred dollars in drone gear. Battleships are/were closer to $1 billion, and they were already mostly obsolete when they were in danger from multi-million dollar planes, dropping thousand dollar bombs, piloted by pilots who had been trained at the cost of millions of dollars.
- Get out of here with your down to earth and sensible thinking. This is Lemmy!