BlackTail penned it down. That new Large Surface Combatant that the Navy is pushing is an old 1980's project, the Baseline Cruiser!

Blacktail nailed it.

I flowed with alot of people and was thinking that the Large Surface Combatant sure looked alot like the Chinese Navy's Type 055.

We were wrong.

This thing matches up perfectly to the Baseline Cruiser Concept.  A concept that was birthed in the 1980s.

Amazing.

That's my biggest complaint.  

We had a generation of generals that trashed every idea during the "peace dividend", then we had a group that was totally focused on social issues, and now we have a group that is looking down the barrel of the Chinese shotgun and all they can do is turn back to the ideas that were earlier rejected.