US Edition‘Trump-Class’ Battleship Is the Latest Twist in a Busy 2025 for Naming Navy Ships
The Trump-class battleships may worsen delays and divert funds from smaller, more survivable ships critical to countering China’s military expansion, experts and officials warn.
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DECRYPTAGE - Donald Trump announced the creation of battleships of the 21st century to equip his "golden fleet" but the ambition is expected to face many financial and strategic obstacles.
The U.S. Navy’s Trump-Class Battleship Will Be ‘Quietly Shelved’
Synopsis: President Trump’s proposed Trump-class “guided-missile battleship” (BBG(X)) is designed to be a headline-grabbing symbol of revived naval power, but it collides with how modern maritime combat actually works. -The concept is missile-centric—closer to an oversized destroyer than to a traditional armored battleship—and it would concentrate expensive capabilities into an obvious, high-priority target, making it […] The post The U.S. Navy’…
Big battleships won’t beat China
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new Trump-class guided missile battleship makes clear that he intends to strengthen America’s military power, whatever one thinks of the name. The battleships will, however, take a great deal of money and dockyard space that could be better spent on other warships suited to countering China. The key measure of naval combat power is not whether a warship is big and awesome-looking. Rather, it is whether …
Trump ship: prestige over utility | The Australian Naval Institute
By Tom Sharpe* On December 22, 2025, at his Mar-a-Lago resort, President Trump unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship as the centrepiece of his “Golden Fleet” initiative. We now have renderings of the proposed USS Defiant – a 30,000 to 40,000-ton behemoth, possibly nuclear propelled and armed with hypersonic missiles, railguns, lasers and nuclear-tipped cruise […]
The Trump class promises hulls of 30,000 to 40,000 tons, massive VLS and hypersonic weapons, but leaves unknown keys to costs, timing and integration.
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