Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Starfleet Tactical #181: Frigates & Battleships in the News... (w/Chris Carlson) [3 Jan 2026@9pmET]

The current naval news has been ... interesting, with both the cancellation of the Constellation class frigate and the announcement of the new "battleship." The former is interesting for all of the normal reasons discussed on this show, and the latter is fascinating from a naming and typ[ing standpoint.  (That's a BATTLESHIP?  Really?)

So, who better to talk about these things -- and add some "...in SPAAACE!" flavor -- than Chris Carlson and Chris Weuve?  (We haven't talked about naming and typing in a while, so this is as good an excuse as any...)

NOTE: We're specifically staying away from the most of the politics of the subject.  It just gets in the way of talking about spaceships.




STARFLEET TACTICAL is the YouTube show where we talk about the intersection of naval history and science fiction, with some gaming occasionally thrown in for flavor. Primary host Chris Weuve is a naval analyst and wargame designer, whose superpower is that he can talk about Real World(tm) navies and science fiction navies at the same time.

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Christopher Weuve is a professional naval analyst and wargame designer. He is a co-founder of the Connections Online wargame conference, held every April.  Outside the day job, Chris is a co-founder of BuNine (David Weber's Honorverse analytic visualization team), and has also consulted with Chuck Gannon, Walter Hunt, Alec Peters, Tom Harlan, John Lumpkin, and others.  His work has been featured by Baen Books, the US Naval War College Review, Foreign Policy, and the Discovery Channel. Since May 2020 he's been the co-host (with Pat Doyle, who joins in when he can) of "Starfleet Tactical" on the Ares Studio channel on YouTube. His hobbies are naval history, science fiction, and not speaking for his employer.


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