Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Swarms of small attack boats, missile-armed drones, and helicopters compress a ship’s decision time and can burn through expensive interceptors...
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Summary and Key Points: Swarms of small attack boats, missile-armed drones, and helicopters compress a ship’s decision time and can burn through expensive interceptors...
A $22 Billion Trump-Class Battleship? Inside the BBG(X) Debate In December 2025, President Donald Trump unveiled plans for a new type of “battleship” which...
BBG(X) Trump-Class Battleship: The “One-Or-Two-Ship” Trap The U.S. Navy Can’t Afford In a press conference on December 22, 2025, President Trump announced that a...
Future war in East Asia could become a kinetic missile fight: massed Chinese ballistic and cruise missiles aimed at bases and ships to keep...
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...
Summary and Key Points: CBO analyst Eric Labs outlined a steep projected cost for the first Trump-class guided-missile battleship, with estimates ranging from roughly...
Summary and Key Points: A new Congressional Research Service report examines the Navy’s proposed guided-missile battleship program, BBG(X), widely framed as the Trump-class centerpiece...
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: A preliminary assessment by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggests the proposed Trump-class battleship (BBG) could cost between $18 and...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy is currently facing a severe shipbuilding crisis described as a “doom loop,” characterized by 82% of construction...