President Donald Trump announced plans to build a new "golden fleet" of naval vessels, starting with two battleships. The first "Trump class" battleship will be named the USS Defiance, with plans for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

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 on Monday unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship, positioning it as a centerpiece of his administration’s effort to rejuvenate the U.S. Navy long plagued by delays, ...

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. Navy will commission a new class of ships named after himself, which the president described as "100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built." The ...

US President Donald Trump attends a press conference, as he makes an announcement about the Navy's Trump-class 'Golden Fleet' Battleship at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, 22 ...

I never thought I would say this in the year 2025, but here it is: the United States is working on a brand-new battleship, the likes of which the seas of the world have not seen in countless decades.

WASHINGTON — The White House is expected to announce plans Monday to build a new, large warship that President Donald Trump is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a "Golden ...

Surrounded by top US national security officials, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump also warned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro against playing "tough". US ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans for a new “Trump class” of battleships, marking the start of an expanded naval buildup and signalling increased scrutiny of defence contractors over ...

The president said they'll be "100 times" more powerful than earlier ships. President Donald Trump announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that ...