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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by dgroshev on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:59PM (#40161600)
They are only a thing for navies that can't afford anything better. We just call our battleships "destroyers" now, Burke Flight III and Type 45 are almost exactly the size of HMS Dreadnought and half the displacement (we don't do armour anymore).

The top end of course got much bigger, CVNs displace almost twice as much as Yamato.

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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by quartesixte on Saturday April 27, 2024 @01:40AM (#40177570)
Wait are you telling me that the only reason why we think Burke class ships are small is because 1) “Destroyer” and then 2) CVNs are just fucking massive?
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by dgroshev on Saturday April 27, 2024 @04:35PM (#40183269)
Yep.

HMS Dreadnought: Length: 160m / Beam: 25m / Displacement: 18410t

Acorn-class destroyer (contemporary with Dreadnought): Length: 75m / Beam: 8m / Displacement: 780t

Burke Flight III: Length: 155m / Beam: 20m / Displacement: 9900t

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