USS Pinckney is a chonker

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

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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!
- it's all frigate - german navy probably
- The US continues to push the bounds of what could be considered a destroyer.
  
  Japan: "Am I a joke to you?"
- 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.
Ah lawd she coming!
Born too late to paint pinup girls on the side if WW2 bombers

Born to early for AI anime waifus

Burn just in time to paint anime waifus on the side of WW3 bombers
Is there a source for the Chibi?
- It's AI. I made it with DALL-E 3
  
  Prompt:
  
  cartoon meme, cute small framed anime girl, she is wearing a comically large coat that is a US Navy destroyer, the US Navy destroyer coat has an absurd amount of tactical gear of radar, antenna, and electronic warfare, she is weighed down by her heavy coat
  
  Wtf, the future is weird.

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