Can China's 'Dreadnought' Tip the Naval Balance?

The National Interest ^ | March 19, 2016 | Lyle J. Goldstein

[sukhoi-30mki]

Two concepts for the Type-055

[BlueNgold]

Who sold them the Burke plans?

[rey]

Not if their ship bears the Made in China label.

[Cold Heart]

Are those some special radar absorbing tiles or is that just some really bad welding.

[onedoug]

soebarkah is completely untrustworthy.

[BenLurkin]

Of all the things to call it, “Dreadnought” has got to be the least apt.

[Scrambler Bob]

Welding good. Plating thickness thin.

Just have to keep the water out.

PS This ship design looks Soviet. Compartmentalized systems.

[BBell]

This is a Dreadnought.

Not that thing pictured.

[BBell]

They probably just hacked them like they do everything else.

[Mariner]

This idiot author fancies himself a naval analyst.

Perhaps somebody should ask him, publicly: How far will a anti-ship Tomahawk shoot? A thousand nautical miles before it flies down the exhaust flue?

Tell me how any CURRENT American warship is "out ranged" again?

A single Burke Class DEDG can send 3-4 missiles at 20 different ships within a 1000 mile radius...and still maintain it's anti-air role.

And that doesn't even count our subsurface capabilities, nor naval air.

How is it that these people get paid to write this drivel?

[Oztrich Boy]

And improved them. Better stealth, Air scan radar a deck higher, and here's the big one phased array fire control.

Burke is looking last century.

[Mariner]

DDG

[Mike Darancette]

Doesn’t look all that stealthy. How will it do against lasers?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

How about USS Montana class?

[mkjessup]

Of all the things to call it, “Dreadnought” has got to be the least apt.

How about "DLEADNOT"? ;)

[mkjessup]

A fine, fine, class of ship that deserved to sail. A shame we didn't follow through and build them.

In that same vein, at the end of World War II, the final Iowa-class battleship (USS Kentucky / BB66) was not
only uncompleted but was used as parts to repair other Iowa-class ships, specifically USS Wisconsin / BB64.
For some reason the following picture of the Kentucky I've always found disturbing:



Kentucky's sister ship USS Illinois (BB65) was actually intended to be the first of the Montana class but was retained as an Iowa class vessel and was left uncompleted at the end of WWII, her hull did nothing but rust until she was broken up in 1958, a real shame:

[husky ed]

I was expecting a Iowa Class or Bismark Class ship. Not something smaller than Trump uses as a launch ;-)

Ed

[lurk]

Made with high-quality Chinese steel.

[Roger Kaputnik]

Bill and Hillary.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Looks like some piece of crap that was Made in China