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Or, THIS one?

Whoa. I'm liking it all, even though this thread might just slam shut at any minute, but let's see

This one?

Radical: - but how about a Navy that is 100% submerged; a total submarine Navy. The Surface crowd would get hot, but you could count on Electric Boat (General Dynamics) lobbying for it.

Float like a Butterfly Sting like a Bee

Ouch! We seem to get sucker-punched a lot as the great American taxpayers we all are...but maybe, just maybe, i'm wrong about that.

A lesson of history is that nations prepare for the next war thinking it will be like the last one, and "it ain't necessarily so". Newly appointed French supreme commander Maxime Weygand noted after the Blitzkreig of WWII that "We have gone to war with a 1918 army against a German army of 1939...

Thanks for all the background steelypip, great stuff. What IS the story on that bow (if not classified), why the reverse rake; what's that do to performance?

Slick. Wonder how it qualifies as a Destroyer? Looks like it should be qualified as a Cruiser (just by the size and by the sounds of it, the firepower also). Gotta check my "Jane's Fighting Ships". Hey, but what do I know?! No Fleet in my background; I was Seabee Navy. I'll check those...