The United States cannot even produce the fifteen and sixteen-inch shells that the battleships of old used to attack. And that capacity is not coming back anytime soon
While there is some logic in thinking about armor against cruise missiles, it would be vulnerable to ballistic hypersonics since they attack vertically, not to mention torps and other crap.
And the article is nothingburger anyways because US Navy is even more obviously than US Air Force, an MIC grift that is unable to do things like develop new weapons or systems (as the failures of Zumwalt and LCS shown), unable to even properly retire nuclear carrier, unable to maintain their submarine fleet, and concering the battleships they already have the problem reactivating them last time because most of parts are unavailable for decades.
At this rate most of the them are going to be in a dock (or waiting for one) for the next decade because they're used much more extensively than their maintenance schedule allows
While there is some logic in thinking about armor against cruise missiles, it would be vulnerable to ballistic hypersonics since they attack vertically, not to mention torps and other crap.
And the article is nothingburger anyways because US Navy is even more obviously than US Air Force, an MIC grift that is unable to do things like develop new weapons or systems (as the failures of Zumwalt and LCS shown), unable to even properly retire nuclear carrier, unable to maintain their submarine fleet, and concering the battleships they already have the problem reactivating them last time because most of parts are unavailable for decades.
They can't maintain their carrier fleet either
At this rate most of the them are going to be in a dock (or waiting for one) for the next decade because they're used much more extensively than their maintenance schedule allows
Yeah the empire's seams are loosening and the carriers are the main mean of gunboat diplomacy.