Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has officially suspended the DDG(X) program in favor of the BBG(X) Trump-class battleship, a move intended to reclaim maritime dominance through sheer mass and ...

Summary: The North Carolina-class battleships, born from restrictive treaty-era limits, became the backbone of the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adm. Daryl Caudle, seen here on Aug. 25, 2025, called the new Trump-class battleships "badass" at a military conference in ...

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 ...

Four Avenger-class U.S. Navy minesweepers were removed from the Middle-East in early 2026 after being decommissioned earlier ...

Naval analysts have long warned that the one-size-fits-all model of carrier strike group deployment is reaching its limits, ...

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(CNN) — President Donald Trump unveiled a new “Trump class” of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an “old and tired and obsolete” US fleet. “They’ll ...

Though the hypothetical Trump-class vessel would have advantages in some areas, it has no good answer to the Admiral Nakhimov ...

The Trump administration has announced that it wants to build a new class of battleships. But this is just one element of the Golden Fleet –a larger program of naval reform aimed at a major ...

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed Navy "battleships" named after himself, as part of a revamped "Golden Fleet". Construction on the ...

Though battleships saw extensive and meritorious service in World War II, the conflict exposed their weaknesses against the rising power of the aircraft carrier.