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Summary and Key Points: Trump’s “Golden Fleet” vision includes a Trump-class battleship armed with 32-megajoule railguns promising shots out to 100 nautical miles. -The...
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Summary and Key Points: Trump’s “Golden Fleet” vision includes a Trump-class battleship armed with 32-megajoule railguns promising shots out to 100 nautical miles. -The...
The proposed Trump-class battleship arrives as a surprise in an era focused on smaller, distributed naval forces. Yet a large missile-carrying surface combatant could...
Summary and Key Points: The proposed Trump-class BBG(X) “guided-missile battleship” is framed as a bold response to China, but the concept clashes with modern...
All four Iowa-class battleships saw action during the Korean War, using 16-inch gunfire to hammer coastal targets, support ground forces, and pressure Communist supply...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has unveiled plans for the “Trump-class” battleship, a massive new warship second only in size to aircraft...
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was poised to be a naval juggernaut—a 45,000-ton Iowa-class battleship armed with nine punishing 16-inch guns. Originally conceived during the...
Iowa-class battleships combined heavy guns with modern missiles, including long-range Tomahawks, and proved their relevance again in the 1991 Gulf War. That legacy fuels...
A wartime U.S.-UK shipbuilding rivalry invites a head-to-head comparison between America’s Iowa-class battleships and Britain’s HMS Vanguard. The Iowa-class brings a long combat record...
The Montana-class battleships sit at the center of a lasting naval “what-if”: a larger successor to the Iowa class with heavier armor, a bigger...
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s and 80s, the U.S. Navy considered converting Iowa-class battleships into “battlecarriers” equipped with flight decks for...