It would make more sense to build them with the same nuclear reactors as the carriers with the theoretical far range they have with rail guns and silly flashlights they call lasers onboard. Like having it as a stand-off far-range sea artillery piece in that aspect would make some sort of sense.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 hours ago

I think honestly the navy knows it's a huge floating high value target, and they're not willing to make it even higher value target by putting a nuclear reactor on it. It would need to be a guided missile submarine for them to invest it with a nuclear reactor

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

At least it'll be slightly less devastating to the local ecology when one of these meme machines ends up splattered by a houthi-manufactured dongfeng hypersonic AShM