U.S. President Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Trump-class” battleship on Dec. 22, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Congressional Republicans and Democrats included a short provision ...

The Newport News shipyard is likely the final assembler of the proposed Trump-class battleship, a Navy official said. Jason Potter, performing the duties of assistant secretary of the Navy for ...

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The very first “battleship” ever built was named USS Texas, but predates the warship now on display in Galveston by some two decades. As The National Interest has previously reported, BB-35 is a ship ...

Spreading the construction of the Trump-class battleship across several different manufacturing locations is key to the Navy’s current plan to build the almost three-football-field-long warship, a ...

The US Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the ...

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2027 30-year shipbuilding plan, which the U.S. Navy released earlier this week, provides for the construction of three nuclear-powered guided missile battleship over ...

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The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible. By Greg Jaffe and Helene Cooper Reporting from Washington ...

THE PENTAGON – The Navy wants to buy the first Trump-class battleship in next year’s budget submission, a schedule that would allow the service to make the purchase before President Donald Trump ...