Donald Trump has been officially declared a loser.

[Thumpalumpacus]

He's apparently unaware we've been running battalion- (and I think brigade-) level amphibious exercises with the USMC and JSDF units for a few years now.

It's a shame he's running around doing so much damage to the national interest with his hypothetical treaty denunciations.

[Minimalist]

In 2015 the Japanese launched what they call a "helicopter destroyer,"  the Izumo.

Looks like a carrier to me.

http://cimsec.org/japans-izumo-class-hel...uise/24130

Japan’s Izumo-class Helicopter Destroyer: An Aircraft Carrier in Disguise?

Carriers are offensive but "helicopter-destroyers" are defensive!

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet.



Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 2

[SteelCurtain]

It looks like our "Helicopter Destroyers" (LHA-LHD)

Theirs:


Ours:

[Thumpalumpacus]

In 2015 the Japanese launched what they call a "helicopter destroyer,"  the Izumo.

Looks like a carrier to me.

http://cimsec.org/japans-izumo-class-hel...uise/24130

Japan’s Izumo-class Helicopter Destroyer: An Aircraft Carrier in Disguise?

Carriers are offensive but "helicopter-destroyers" are defensive!

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other word would smell as sweet.



Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 2

Indeed, and it's a very capable ship. The Japanese also have some of the best conventional submarines in the world.

[Jackalope]

It looks like our "Helicopter Destroyers" (LHA-LHD)

Theirs:


Ours:

Those are cute. ASW, yes?

You Navy pukes have the best toys.

[SteelCurtain]

No. Ours are amphibious launch vehicles. Theirs are not, as you can see by the lack of well deck on the back of the ship.

[Minimalist]

I noted in one article that they named the second ship in the class the Kaga.

Maybe a little message there?

[SteelCurtain]

I noted in one article that they named the second ship in the class the Kaga.

Could be, but we name ships all the time the same way, with the names of old ships.

[account_inactive]

This is bad news for Trump.

Basically, this is the same as the Democrats for Nixon movement in 1972 but in reverse. A significant number of Republicans (including former cabinet members) are coming out in support of Hillary Clinton. Not all Republicans are insane and immoral. Some of them recognize what Trump is, swallow their personal wishes and do what any sane patriot would do - support Hillary.

I salute them. Their heart is in the right place even if their head isn't.

And, Trump's ego is so big, that he is virtually certain not to drop out.  Question is, will he go-off the deep end and try some sort of coup?

Lol.

No.

[Anomalocaris]

I noted in one article that they named the second ship in the class the Kaga.

Could be, but we name ships all the time the same way, with the names of old ships.

The point is Kaga is the name of a historic Japanese province.  In japanese naval tradition, significant historic place names are reserved for battleships, not destroyers.  As in the battleship Yamato. Both the imperial Japanese navy and the current Japanese maritime self defense force have hitherto adhered to the standard practice of naming destroyers after poetical weather phenomenons.   So a destroyer might be named autumn rain, or snowy wind. (Don't ask). But by naming the current Kaga this way, it makes the classification of ship, 3 times larger than any other destroyer ever built, as a destroyer even more of a farce.

Incidentally, the last Kaga was a battleship that was converted to a carrier and sank at Midway.

But also keep in mind the Russian navy's full fledged carrier Admiral Kutnezov, all 65,000 tons and 3 times larger than any other cruiser, is also classified as a cruiser, because otherwise she would be ineligible to transit the Bosporus straits under the terms of a treaty between Russia and turkey.   But in the case of this Russia carrier/cruiser, although she is clearly a carrier, she also carries a full cruiser's armament and sensor suite.  So calling he a cruiser is slightly less ridiculous. Also, she has a traditional Russian cruiser name.