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[ismellcopium]

Just absolute LOL at the state of this:

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SDFers currently arguing over relatively minor changes to the J-36 design should stop a moment and thank Serendipity they're not US fanbois these days.

Not receiving pay, having to fish comrades out of the sea multiple times a day and now this is just the last straw. You're about to see active duty sailors go all

Also, lmfao:

 

[another505]

I imagine the navy will just drag their feet till trump kick the bucket or something. Unless he "wins" the third term, I don't think this will actually affect anything.

 

[Broccoli]

I imagine the navy will just drag their feet till trump kick the bucket or something. Unless he "wins" the third term, I don't think this will actually affect anything.

Someone suggested they could add fog machines to make it look like an steam catapult when Trump visits new carriers.

 

[SlothmanAllen]

So the Hanwha shipyard is going to become another nuclear submarine shipyard according the agreement South Korea and the US signed.

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President Trump announced on Wednesday that South Korea will construct a nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia as part of a $350 billion trade agreement between the two nations, despite no such facility currently capable of building submarines or nuclear vessels.

The announcement faces obvious significant technical obstacles. Hanwha Philly Shipyard is a commercial shipbuilder that has never constructed a submarine, let alone a nuclear submarine. The facility has delivered 30 commercial vessels since 2003, including container vessels, product tankers, and repair vessels.

The announcement comes as a Senate subcommittee held a hearing on Tuesday examining how to revive U.S. commercial shipbuilding.

I suspect that this will form a major part of the promised South Korean investment in reviving US shipbuilding. I think the long term goal will to be establishing another shipyard that can build US nuclear submarines which will help with the AUKUS deal.

EDIT: To further that:

Hanwha acquired Philly Shipyard for $100 million in December 2024 and has since announced aggressive expansion plans. In August, the company unveiled a $5 billion investment to install additional docks and quays that could boost the shipyard’s production from fewer than two vessels annually to as many as 20.

The expansion includes plans for two additional docks, three quays, and a potential new block assembly facility, representing what the company describes as a multibillion-dollar infrastructure commitment.

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[00CuriousObserver]

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

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Awesome! All the more reasons for China to be more steadfast in expanding her nuclear arsenal! China should seek to achieve (at the very least) parity with the US in either overall number of cumulative yield, whichever is higher!

 

[gelgoog]

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Trump is lying. The US is still using the Minuteman III and Trident II from the Cold War. Those missiles are ballistic so can be intercepted by the latest ABM. And adding tail kits to B61 bombs is hardly difficult.
I think both the refurbishment of Trident II and the tail kits for the B61 were started when Obama was POTUS.

Russia has more warheads. They have the Yars and Bulava in service. For tactical nukes there is the Kh-102, Zircon, and Kalibr. There is simply no contest.

It is also claimed Russia kept miniaturizing its warheads after the Cold War unlike the US. So they are more compact.

 

[JimmyMcFoob]

It is also claimed Russia kept miniaturizing its warheads after the Cold War unlike the US. So they are more compact.

Actually, US warheads were generally smaller than Soviet warheads at the end of the Cold War. It's just that the US has stagnated in warhead design while the now-Russians have continued modernizing. I believe they are more or less equivalent now, and there does not exist a meaningful difference in warhead size.

The delivery platforms on the other hand...