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Key Points and Summary – This article argues that today’s “Trump-class battleship” idea has historical echoes in the Navy’s recurring fascination with oversized, heavily...
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Key Points and Summary – This article argues that today’s “Trump-class battleship” idea has historical echoes in the Navy’s recurring fascination with oversized, heavily...
Synopsis: The Montana-class was conceived in 1940 as America’s ultimate battleship—bigger, heavier armored, and more heavily armed than the Iowa class. -Authorized under the...
Synopsis: Built under treaty-era limits, the South Dakota-class battleships packed nine 16-inch guns, heavy armor, and high speed into a compact hull just as...
Key Points and Summary – A century ago, battleships anchored American sea power—and the South Dakota-class quietly mattered more than most remember. -Funded in...
Synopsis: This piece traces the rise and fall of the Soviet Kirov-class battlecruisers, enormous nuclear-powered “Sea Eagles” built to intimidate NATO carrier groups and...
Missouri is nicknamed “The Show-Me State” (along the way inspiring the name of a sports bar & grill that’s a regional competitor with Hooters),...
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships were the greatest gun platforms ever to sail, but on paper their planned successors—the Montana-class—were even...
Key Points and Summary – Strip away the branding, and the Trump-class battleship looks less like Iowa nostalgia and more like a networked warfighting...
Key Points and Summary – Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships—flagships of a new “Golden Fleet”—promise to be the most lethal surface combatants ever built,...
Key Points and Summary – President Donald Trump’s proposed “Trump-class” battleships—flagships of a new “Golden Fleet”—would be huge missile-laden surface combatants meant to revive...