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My favorite defense economics person has weighed-in on this. Summary: probably a bad idea. He makes several points I made, but also says we don't have the shipyards to build ships this big. Our destroyer shipyards can't do it. Also, despite Japan's progress with railguns, the advanced systems for the
Defiant don't actually yet exist. So, we'd be building a ship whose armament is currently vaporware.
As I pointed out, we get fewer ships, and fewer VLS cells for the same monies.
YouTube: Bringing Back the Battleship? - Railguns, US Shipbuilding and a 35,000 ton bad idea? (Perun)(deep dive for those interested)
Revive the DDG(x), and start building them in quantity. Before China swamps us with their Type 055.
