Drone boats make debut in Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan
- On Monday, the Navy released its 30-year shipbuilding plan, officially confirming the Trump-class battleship will be nuclear-powered and serve as a command ship for future naval operations.
- Officials pivoted from the DDG destroyer program, which involved undesirable trade-offs, to design the new battleship for superior endurance and significant payload volume needed by the fleet.
- The battleship will utilize the Ford-class A1B nuclear reactor, with budget documents projecting roughly $46 billion in design and development costs over the next five years.
- Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., questioned the battleship's affordability during a hearing today, citing the projected $17.5 billion cost per vessel amid budget concerns.
- The $305.7 billion plan aims for a 299-ship force by 2031, including acquiring 15 battleships by 2056 while retiring 46 older vessels including the USS Nimitz.
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Drone boats make debut in Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan
The Navy’s new 30-year shipbuilding plan outlines an effort to buy 15 battleships by 2055, and reveals details about the 80-plus robot boats it aims to add within five years. “Our success will be measured by one metric: a larger, more capable fleet—manned and unmanned—ready to defend our homeland and project power globally,” Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said in the report's foreword. The fiscal year 2027 update of the plan, released Monday, ad…
Trump's Battleship Will Run On Nuclear Power, Carry Futuristic Weapons
The plan was included in the Navy's latest 30-year shipbuilding roadmap submitted to Congress. Unlike destroyers and frigates, which usually rely on gas turbines or diesel engines, the Trump battleship will use a nuclear reactor for propulsion.
This strategy is outlined in the U.S. Army's latest annual warship construction plan, just released. The only nuclear-powered surface ships currently in service in the U.S. fleet are the Nimitz- and Ford-class aircraft carriers. The battleship is intended to "provide a significant increase in combat power." The Navy hasn't had a nuclear-powered surface ship since the 1990s, when the one-of-a-kind cruiser USS Long Beach and the frigate USS Bainbr…
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