The first Trump-class “battleship” ordered up by the White House could cost as much as $22 billion, and could cut into the Navy’s plans for next-generation destroyers, Congressional researchers said ...

The Trump-class Battleship probably won't get built, but the hull could serve as a basis for much-needed logistical ships. America’s new battleship is unlikely to survive President Donald Trump’s ...

Even before using a US Navy armada to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump had big ideas to remake the service in his image. At a glitzy Mar-a-Lago rollout last month, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "Trump Class" battleship: An obsolete folly even before the first rivet is driven. (U.S. Navy) On Dec. 22 at Mar-a-Lago, ...

In the designation BBG(X), BB means battleship, G means guided missile ship (i.e., a ship with a medium- or long-range air defense system), and (X) means the design of the ship has not yet been fully ...

The lead ship of the new Trump-class battleship is to cost as much as a Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Due to the ...

Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts Experts described it as a "prestige project," a "bomb magnet" and said that "this ship will never sail." Even ...

In late December 2025, the U.S. Navy announced plans to pursue a new class of large surface combatants described as Trump-class battleships, marking the first time in decades the service has publicly ...

The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

The end of the Age of the Battleship appears to have been called prematurely as the Trump administration, as part of its Golden Fleet US Navy reform, says it is reviving the giant battlewagons in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. President Donald Trump announced a bold plan on Monday for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he called a ...