Adm. Daryl Caudle, seen here on Aug. 25, 2025, called the new Trump-class battleships "badass" at a military conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday. (MCS Joe J. Cardona Gonzalez/U.S. Navy) ...

Everyone who's anyone in defense should profit off the new Trump-class battleships, but Huntington Ingalls and General Dynamics may make the most money of all. President Donald Trump is remaking the U ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump proposes a new battleship class named after himself, but it could be a costly white elephant. On Dec. 22 at ...

Last week, President Trump, with his customary fanfare, unveiled plans for a new “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships. “There’s never been anything like these ships,” the president declared as he ...

To the Editor: Battleships have not been built since 1944. First aircraft carriers and submarines, now more long-range missiles and drones, have rendered them obsolete. They are expensive, big, and ...

Donald Trump announces the construction of new U.S. battleships that the Pentagon says will be armed with nuclear cruise missiles, railguns, and lasers. Is this a smart use of naval resources? Will ...

Among the eye-opening details of President Trump’s plans for an eponymous class of giant warships is one that appears to contravene an earlier policy position: these “battleships” are to be armed with ...

Fourth-quarter earnings aren’t in yet, but even with the U.S. government’s longest recorded shutdown and the lack of a final spending plan for the current fiscal year, defense companies are generally ...

President Trump’s plan for new American battleships appears to be going for a “bigger-is-better” mantra — perhaps a nod to the commander-in-chief whose name they will carry. The Trump-class vessels ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the Navy will build “battleships” again was not the only blast from the past. If they are ever built, the ships would each feature an electromagnetic ...