Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy is finalizing plans to buy the first Trump-class battleship in its 2027 budget — ...
The U.S. Navy’s new shipbuilding plan includes one of its most surprising ideas in decades: a nuclear-powered Trump-class ...
The use of nuclear power aboard the future Trump-class vessels may seem prudent now, but is likely to become a financial and logistical albatross for the Navy. The US Navy’s future Trump-class ...
The first Trump-class battleship will be built at a Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Newport News—raising concerns that the project will delay the aircraft carriers already under construction there.
The U.S. 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 keel for aircraft carrier Enterprise is shown here in Newport News Shipbuilding's Dry Dock 12, where the US wants to assemble proposed battleships. (Michael Fabey) HII's Newport News Shipbuilding ...