U.S. Navy leaders speaking at a military conference this week outlined what they described as the strategic opportunities of the recently announced Trump-class battleships and why the service is embracing the development.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, speaking at the 38th Annual Surface Navy Association National Symposium in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, explained that he understood the initial reticence to accept the inclusion of battleships as part of the Navy’s new Golden Fleet.

“We just have biases, cognitive biases, in our brain,” Caudle said. “And what comes to our brain is a thing that goes, like, ‘Why is the Navy building that?’ Well, everything’s an evolution.”

The battleships, which he labeled as “badass,” would afford the service multiple critical capabilities: massive payload volume, speed, the ability to get anywhere in the world, the ability to command and control operations and the ability to fulfill multiple missions.

President Donald Trump announced the Navy’s new Golden Fleet during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last month.

The fleet will include two Trump-class battleships, which Trump said would be the fastest and biggest battleships in the world and 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.

Caudle said he fielded many questions about unmanned technology but that autonomous technology didn’t always present the best capabilities for deterrence, especially when you had a battleship with a significant ability to attack waiting in the wing.

“If I want to shoot 100 things from 100 things, or I want to shoot 100 things from one thing, which is harder?” Caudle asked rhetorically.