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Why Modern Battleships are a Multi-Billion Dollar Mistake | Anchor Watch (CLIP)
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4:40Now PlayingTrump wants to bring the battleship back. Retired Navy surface warfare officer Bobby Jones thinks that’s an extraordinarily bad idea.
Jones explains why battleships were already becoming obsolete before World War II, why modern warfare increasingly favors smaller, more maneuverable and unmanned vessels, and why spending billions on enormous ships in an era of drones, missiles and sea mines makes little strategic sense. His assessment after two decades in surface warfare: “This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen in weapons procurement.”
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