Good for force projection. About the size of a WW2 Baltimore Class cruiser. Wouldn’t have a chance against a Demoines class heavy cruiser. 20k tons and 9 automatic 8 inch guns. Yowzah!
Of course the Chinese ship would have a chance if our cruiser could not fire back in a timely fashion given our current rules of engagement.
Pity they’re all museums/scrapped now.
Still, this isn’t so much a ‘monster ship’ as much as a modern take on the armed merchant cruiser type.
If they wanted a monster, they’d first have to start at 100K tons and go up from there. But that’s what those ‘islands’ are for.
#11 12 shots per minute per barrel!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines-class_cruiser