President Trump has proposed a costly and dangerous initiative to build a new fleet of battleships, the "Trump Class", which ...

Donald Trump arrives for a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 22, 2025, where he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on ...

On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of “battleships” that will be 100 times more powerful than previous battleships and larger than any other surface combatant on the oceans. The ...

The massive vessels were decommissioned in favor of smaller, more versatile ships. And experts are skeptical of the plan to ...