No more landing ships

  What the navy needs is the same thing every branch of the military needs. Fire power.

  I saw what was described as a ridiculous class of fictional vessels. But personally, I found the concept to be unusually brilliant. Normally. Every frigate and destroyer has its own independent electronics system. Meaning they would be able to operate alone, independent from the battle group. They have their own sensory equipment, their own antiship weapons, their own antiair weapons. Generally, these ships are fairly rounded. They do not excel in any single one area, but are capable to perform several different tasks.

  However, if a class of vessels could be produced that were simply armed with nothing but DF31s. What we would have is a very blind ship that packs an apocalyptic volume of firepower. There are enough destroyers and frigates that can act as the eyes and ears of these one hit wonders. The 052s and the 053s can act as the escorts of these death stars at sea while your so called death stars act the the nucleus for your fleet.

Like a carrier, the ship will always be under constant surveillance by enemy vessels. But unlike a carrier, the payload it carries is intercontinental, while the weapons it brandishes are apocalyptic.

 No one wants to end the world. But to posses the power to do so needs to be very real.