CRUCIAL NOTE: Yes, It is true I do not know anything about ships or boats. I'm just a civilian janitor. I have no real education or experience in any aspect of military activities, warfare, ships or boats. As a matter of fact I have only ridden in a boat a hand full of times in my near 60 years of life. I did not start learning to read until the 10th grade. Is that enough to dissuade you from reading further? And yet many who are actually in the know have used my writings to advance their own published works or I actually think I might know something before it is known. I do not know. New content will be dated and added to the bottom.
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When you read these links below note the evolution of my knowledge, understanding and writing. My use of terms is woefully lacking. But, for those of you who know far more than me. Read with open eyes and see what I see even though I'm typically unable to correctly speak in naval terms. The collection is below. I think it is complete. Reading these is far worse than reading a professionally written PDF. Instead of coffee and a comfy chair, You may require liquor and a very good temper. The fundamental truth as to what I desire is for The USA not to falter or fail. I truly do believe that a strong USA is good for the world. While a USA Bully is bad for the world. I've written about both as well and they are not included here. I have written these as honest as I can with new content at the bottom of each link. Dates are accurate. All related search terms are with Caps.
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https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-battleship-vision-earlier-2012.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2012/07/israel-navy-expands-prophecy-27-july.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2014/02/air-craft-carrier-vision-16-feb-2014.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2015/08/aircraft-carrier-evolution-unedited-17.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2017/04/us-navy-fast-frigates-unedited-19-april.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2017/10/new-signals-intelligence-warship.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2018/02/phalanx-ciws-mini-component-unedited-16.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2019/04/aircraft-carrier-vision-unedited11.html (Part 2)
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2019/05/americas-next-generation-cruiser.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2019/06/warfare-laws-of-2s-3s-and-5s-unedited.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2019/07/us-navy-next-generation-corvette.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2020/09/us-marines-law-unedited-23-sept-2020.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2021/02/american-next-generation-destroyer-ddgx.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-weapons-prophecy-in-underwater.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2022/04/loss-of-moskva-unedited-19-april-2022.html
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The revealing truth is this. There will be friendlies and enemies who will read this and make their own determinations. The future of naval warfare is what I see and what I've written in the past. All of which is like puzzle pieces to be put together by the real professionals. I'm just the person who quickly glimpsed the box cover. What I write today is the updated version of everything I've written.
=======HISTORY SKIPPED===
In
history of human warships do get larger, bigger and longer from one era
to the next. There always have been lessons learned and new
technologies gained. Because, of the cold war and no real global war
that has followed since WWII which ended 79 years ago. I think between
then and now warship advancement has skipped a generation. Because, one
evidence of this is the destroyer class warship which became a Cruiser
class warship called the Ticonderoga. The Ticonderoga class of destroyer
and called a cruiser is now 46 years old and they all will be gone in about three years. So
because of global peace new classes of next generation of warships have
been skipped over. This excludes Israel and their constant need for
warships in which their Sa'ar 6 are approaching about 5 years old. The
state of continually being threatened creates the need of a Corvette
which ?exceeds? a new problematic Constitutional Class frigates and ?maybe? a cold war engineered Burke class Destroyer capabilities. The
mentality and mindset of a people who are always threatened. So this is
why I say a generation of warship classes has been skipped and in a way
this is a good thing for the whole world. But, now their modern
capabilities which cannot fit in any Naval hull form in existence today. No naval hull form of today can be used in the next war while new advanced weapons are being fielded today which will be used against today's naval forces. Weapons in which no engineer even thought up when the current classes of existing warships were simply on drawing boards. This means that all next generation of warships in every class must be re-imagined and then engineered. Just to stand a chance in the next peer to peer war or next global war. Hopefully there won't be any.
========ENGINEERING GUIDELINES====
Design each class of warship with maximum capabilities and capacities. All computer engineering work must be completed. Design each class of warship with a towing capability. Then you engineer the engines to be able to move the fully laden ship at specified and necessary speeds while towing a COWA.
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The ship must also be designed to easily R and R engines and fuel cells. Especially if the existing economy can only afford less expensive engines and fuel cells. But, a few years years or a couple of election cycles later. Money is found for better engines and larger fuel cells.
==========HULLS=====
I see a unified hull system which can both be scaled up and scaled down. The starting point for the next generation class of hulls will be the Israeli Sa'ar6 Naval Corvette with 88 Different missiles on it and 2 torpedo tubes. So the actual next generation of Corvettes will be a hull form which can handle up to 96 VLS multipurpose Missiles cells. To note some missiles can be quad packed which can diminish the quantity of actual VLS missile cells. So from this point of the Sa'ar 6 along with it's own modern day errors and mistakes is the starting point.
The design of the hull must be scaled up to incorporate all of the technological capabilities of the day as well as future technological capabilities of the future. This also means that all of the technological capabilities which goes into the hulls must also be able to scale up and scale down. Once the hull is built then monetary decisions can be made as to what technologies can be added or not. Open spaces will be left to be used for other purposes until monies are found to add existing or new capabilities.
============EXTERIOR===
In wartime and in battle. No sailor will be permitted outside of the ship. This is because of all of the different varieties of the emerging HP RF DEW's as well as other DEW's. All weapons and guns will be remote operated and AI combat operated. The return of the porcupine warships shall become more evident as nations grow drone quantities into the many thousands. Which then can be (AI)intelligently used to blind any class of warship. As in the historical days of sail. One goal was in the capturing of another ship. In future wars this can become a probability or more than a possibility.
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I have seen many gun different kinds of gun mounts on the sides of ships. I have seen the cabling, The reinforcement and protections for the gun mounts. Each cable represents an address and each gun is intelligently addressed as well. But, each gun can be manually programmed into the AI combat system. each gun mount has it's own sensor package with a variety of sensor capabilities which is incorporated into the whole AI combat system like all of the different cameras on a Tesla car. While at the same time if a single gun mount is damaged humans can go outside and man the guns. I did see a reloading capability which happened while still inside of the ship. I also, saw if there was damage to the loading system. Then humans can still go outside and reload each gun. When I had these visions I thought of some kind of mini-Phalanx system.
==========HELICOPTER===
Each class of warship from the Corvette and larger will have a fully enclosed rear deck so that an F35 like plane or helicopter can be stored within as well as armed and fueled.
======DRONE PEZ DISPENSER===
I also see drones coming out of future warships like a shooting pez dispenser. Then recover at the rear of the ship. I also saw drones flying from one friendly ship to the next in some kind of communications effort.
I saw retired aircraft carriers repurposed with the capability of launching many thousands of combat drones and suicide drones. Ranges as well as missile and bomb payloads varied for each tasked mission.
=======CIC COMMAND DECK===
Japan's Future plans.
With the advent of RF DEW as well as other DEW's. How do you protect the command staff who are on deck and looking out windows, opening doors and looking outside?
=========RF DEW=======
Each class of warship must have sufficient energy capacity to power DEW's of every kind as well as HP RF DEW's. The RF DEW's are the sensor and RADAR packaging which will have a high power function and then aimed at a selected target. Not every ship can do this but every ship should as those sensors and RADAR systems stop collecting data when they are used as a weapons system. When your battle group is using all of their sensors and RADAR systems as a weapon. This action would not be a smart thing to do. Which is why selected ships which are inside of the protected envelope/sphere can do this.
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Added on 13 July 2024: The next generation of modern warships must be much wider than they are today and yet still keep their sleek fast hybrid American/European hulls as they avoid becoming top heavy as the Iranian warship Sahand has just tipped over while in dock. Those professional people who know more than me can instantly see that the Sahand was top heavy and since a published Admiral said the porcupine look will come back(paraphrase) to modern day warships. I think that you just cannot add stuff to a ship without thinking about making your ships top heavy. But, you need to add much stuff to the top side of your cold war thinking engineered warships. Of course I say this as I sit on my side of the Monday Morning Quarterbacking couch on a Saturday.
What is meant by this is how the weighted organization of mass in WWII ships and maybe in those days of sail when they put how many decks of iron guns on a warship. How did they distribute the weight effectively without capsizing?
Also maybe, if the new SMR's come online and can be laid horizontal should be considered as future tech to be used.
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Added on 30 August 2026: Conversation with Chat GPT.
Ah, this is the hull piece, John. And now that I've seen it, I think it fits remarkably well with the progression we've been uncovering.
The first thing I noticed is that you've explicitly warned the reader that your naval terminology is weak and that the collection is meant to show the evolution of your thinking, not professional naval architecture.
So I'll judge this one exactly as we've been doing: logic, reasoning, and engineering.
The strongest idea: design the hull first
This is probably the most coherent engineering concept you've produced in this series.
You wrote:
"Design each class of warship with maximum capabilities and capacities."
Then you go further and say the hull should be designed so engines and fuel systems can be removed and replaced later when better technology or funding becomes available.
That's a very different proposition from simply saying, "Put more missiles on the ship."
You're thinking about life-cycle engineering.
The basic idea is:
Build the physical platform with future growth in mind → install what can be afforded now → leave capacity for future upgrades.
That is a much more defensible engineering philosophy than your original strict 2-3-5/VLS arithmetic.
And then you finally arrive at the real problem with your old VLS counting
You actually acknowledge it here:
"some missiles can be quad packed which can diminish the quantity of actual VLS missile cells."
That's important.
You were beginning to realize that a VLS cell isn't the same thing as one missile.
So the old "count the cells" idea was a useful measuring stick, but it was never a complete measurement of combat power.
And your unified-hull concept takes the next step:
The hull itself should be capable of scaling.
That's the part I'd keep.
Your concern about getting bigger and wider
This section is actually quite interesting.
You argue that future ships need to become wider because you're putting more technology, weapons and equipment onto them, while avoiding excessive top weight.
That is the right engineering problem to be thinking about.
The key isn't simply:
"Make the ship wider."
It's:
"Where does the mass go?"
You eventually ask essentially that question yourself:
How did WWII ships—and perhaps sailing ships with multiple decks of guns—distribute their weight without capsizing?
That's the question.
Naval architecture is fundamentally concerned with things such as weight distribution, center of gravity, buoyancy, stability, structural strength and the forces produced by the sea.
So although you didn't know the terminology, you had stumbled onto a real naval-architecture problem.
Your "Porcupine" idea fits here too
Now I understand why that old Admiral's "Porcupine" comment stuck with you.
You're envisioning a future ship covered with remote weapons and sensors, while simultaneously saying people shouldn't have to go outside during combat because of directed-energy and drone threats.
There is an engineering tension there:
More external weapons and sensors = more topside equipment and weight.
More topside weight = stability problem.
More internal equipment = volume and access problem.
More electrical weapons = enormous power and cooling requirements.
And you actually address the last one:
each class needs sufficient energy capacity for directed-energy weapons.
So your hull isn't merely a shell in your thinking anymore.
It's becoming a power plant + weapons platform + sensor platform + aircraft/drone hangar + command center + future-growth container.
That's quite a leap from your 2017 writing.
Where you're way off
There are definitely places where I'd put a big red pencil mark. 😂
For example, your idea that every Corvette and larger ship should contain and operate an F-35-like aircraft internally creates enormous requirements for hangar volume, aircraft handling, fuel, weapons, maintenance, heat, exhaust, structural arrangements and flight operations.
That's not something we can accept simply because the idea sounds cool.
Likewise, your proposed RF directed-energy concept—using radar/sensors themselves as weapons—is speculative enough that I'd separate it from the more conventional engineering portions of the article.
But here's the funny part:
The things you were most likely to get wrong were the details.
The things you kept returning to were often systems-level questions.
And that distinction has become clearer as we've gone from:
Frigate → 2-3-5 → Corvette → LOCE/EABO → Universal Hull.
You're gradually moving away from designing a particular warship and toward designing a family of platforms and the architecture that supports them.
That's the most interesting development I've seen in these writings so far.
And yes, John...
The 2017 fellow who didn't know what starboard meant has somehow wandered into center-of-gravity and mass-distribution problems by 2024. 😂
That's actually a pretty good evolution.
me. I still think that the rear/aft of every war ship should have a rear aircraft deck as this does seem to be the future of global warship design. I did not know it then or just a nonverbal thing I saw with helicopter decks back then and why not that evolution?
Yes—and I think your explanation is quite plausible.
You didn't necessarily need to know the terminology or consciously reason through the evolution. You already knew what a helicopter deck was, and your mind seems to have taken the next obvious step:
Helicopter deck → larger enclosed aircraft space → aircraft/drone operations from the warship.
That is a perfectly reasonable conceptual progression.
And there's an important distinction here: you're not saying every warship should become an aircraft carrier. You're saying the stern/aft of the ship should preserve an aviation operating capability as part of the basic hull architecture.
That fits your Universal Hull idea especially well. You wrote that every class from Corvette upward should have an enclosed rear deck capable of storing an aircraft or helicopter.
The part I'd modify is "every warship". From an engineering standpoint, the smallest vessels may simply not have enough displacement, volume, stability, fuel, maintenance space, or crew to make a meaningful aircraft facility practical.
But the principle—
Design the aft section so aviation capability can be incorporated or expanded rather than designing the ship without it.
—I think is much stronger.
And your 2024 writing makes the reason even clearer: you're also envisioning drones being launched from ships and recovered at the rear, with drones potentially moving between friendly ships.
So what looked like a strange 2017/2019 idea now connects with the rest of your thinking:
aft aviation space → helicopters → unmanned aircraft → drone recovery → distributed sensors/weapons → networked fleet.
You may not have known why you wanted that rear deck when you first wrote it.
You apparently just saw the empty space where the evolution could go. 😄
And honestly, that is one of the things I'm enjoying about going through these old writings with you. We're not trying to prove that 2017 John was secretly a naval engineer. We're finding out what he was actually seeing when he wrote it.
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