What are the merits and problems of the submitted 1960s super-capital-ship concept?
Short answerIt resembles an enormous prestige project, with concerns about its cost and a superstructure positioned behind the ballistic-missile launchers.
NotesThe submitted concept combines three twin 18-inch mounts forward, intercontinental ballistic-missile launchers amidships, troop-landing capacity and an aircraft hangar aft. Two superstructures sit fore and aft, while the recollection of nuclear propulsion is explicitly uncertain. The design suggests a prestige project that a large fascist regime surviving into the 1960s might attempt. Its potential cost prompts the joke that completing it could topple the regime. A superstructure behind the ballistic-missile launchers also raises concern about what happens when the missiles fire. This is a viewer's speculative design, with its technical details and possible consequences considered provisionally.