The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump's name to its sign in Washington.

The move comes amid outcry from Democrats after the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts affixed Trump’s name to its sign in Washington.

Donald Trump’s name is being attached to a new class of U.S. battleships that will have nuclear capabilities.

Making the announcement at an event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Navy Secretary John Phelan referred to the warships as “Trump-class battleships" and said a forthcoming vessel dubbed the USS Defiant will be “the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.”

Trump’s eponymous battleships will be armed with guns and missiles, as well as hypersonic weapons, electronic rail guns and high-powered lasers.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    36·
    4 days ago

    I’m calling it: Trump is one Western movie watch away from ordering the military to bring back cavalry.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      28·
      4 days ago

      https://sopuli.xyz/post/38499583

      Russia Continues Using Cavalry in Failed Assault, OSINT-Shared Video Reveals

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      Footage shared by the OSINT community shows Russian forces attempting to storm a Ukrainian position using a horse for transport, an assault that was ultimately halted by a Ukrainian drone strike, according to video published by Exilenova+ on December 22.

      While unusual at first glance, the incident aligns with earlier reports indicating that Russian frontline units have increasingly relied on animals as substitutes for destroyed or unavailable military vehicles.

      The Napoleonic era is coming back, baby.

    • just2look@lemmy.zip
      11·
      4 days ago

      We still have the cavalry, stetsons and all. Unless you mean like actual horse cavalry. The U.S. Army still maintains horses and stables. But the horses are mostly just for ceremonial/parade purposes.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        13·
        4 days ago

        It’s a very small unit, though, from memory.

        Also, occasionally US special forces have used horses in unusual, rugged terrain. There was some unit in Afghanistan that had some technical claim to being the most-recent cavalry charge in history.

        searches

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif

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        Photo showing U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers in “the first American cavalry charge of the 21st century”[19] with General Dostum and his forces (Taken October 2001)

        • just2look@lemmy.zip
          9·
          4 days ago

          Ceremonial horse cavalry is small, but 1st Cavalry Division still exists. Its more light armor and mechanized infantry instead of horse cavalry though.

        • 5in1K@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Special forces it makes sense, but regular assault troops it’s just desperate.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      4·
      4 days ago

      No no no, you don’t understand. This one is going to be more than a hundred times more powerful because it’s going to be bigger and faster!