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
    27·
    12 小时前

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

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      22·
      12 小时前

      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
      8·
      12 小时前

      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
        8·
        11 小时前

        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
          6·
          11 小时前

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

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            4·
            11 小时前

            Do they actually have horses?

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            Apparently yes, though it’s not huge either and it sounds like they’re being dissolved too:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_Horse_Cavalry_Detachment

            The 40-soldier unit is equipped with 33 dark bay horses with minimal white markings which are outfitted with Model 1885 McClellan riding saddles that are hand-made by cavalry troopers in an on-site leather shop maintained at the unit’s stables.

            On 2 July 2025 the Army announced that the Military Working Equid program that includes the 1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment will cease operations and associated assets (MWEs) will be transferred, adopted, or donated within one year.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      3·
      10 小时前

      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!