Monster ship, monster aircraft

What kind of ship or aircraft would deserve the title ‘monster’?  The images I have of monster ship or aircraft are those of alien space ships in the movie Independence Day and Star Wars. These are not only huge but really deadly. Back on earth, what kind of ship or aircraft could come near to these monster space ship? What about the aircraft carriers of the mighty American naval fleet? Are they big and monstrous enough, with nuclear weapons and thousands of fighting men and machine? What about the B 52 bombers aka flying fortresses with the nuclear bombs hanging under their bellies? Would these be fitting to be called monster ship and monster aircraft?

According to an ST article on 11 Dec by a China Correspondence, Teo Cheng Wee, titled ‘China builds second ‘monster’ ship’, the monster ship he referred to is a mega coast guard ship of 12,000 tonnes. Wow, 12,000 tonnes, so big, so monstrous. Can’t blame children, anything bigger than a bus must be a monster. Children have very limited knowledge of how big the world is. A coast guard ship of 12,000 tonnes is a monster.  If I were a teacher I would give him full mark as children need to be encouraged for their innocence.

I am wondering what would this correspondent describe the American aircraft carriers and the B 52 bombers. Maybe he can’t find a word big enough in his vocabulary to describe such monsters. What would be bigger and more deadly than a monster coast guard ship of 12,000 tonnes? What to call an aircraft carrier or a B 52 bomber? A super yacht or a super flying bus?

Any suggestion? Why would a correspondent describe a teeny weeny 12,000 ton coast guard boat with a few anti aircraft guns as a monster? Never seen ship bigger ship than this? The sight of such a big ship must be very impressive to children.