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Summary and Key Points: The ambitious proposal for “Trump-class” battleships faces a harsh reality: the U.S. shipbuilding industry currently produces less than 1% of...
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Summary and Key Points: The ambitious proposal for “Trump-class” battleships faces a harsh reality: the U.S. shipbuilding industry currently produces less than 1% of...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has effectively cancelled its next-generation DDG(X) destroyer program in favor of the massive “Trump-class” battleship (BBG(X)). -Displacing...
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...
Russia’s Kirov-class battlecrusier Admiral Nakhimov is back in the water and moving under its own power for the first time since the late 1990s,...
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 proposed Trump-class battleship is framed as a way to restore naval firepower amid shifting force structure pressures, but the central question is whether...
The proposed Trump-class battleship concept depends heavily on a 32-megajoule electromagnetic railgun firing hypersonic tungsten projectiles, but railgun feasibility remains the central vulnerability. The...
President Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleship, known as BBG(X), is pitched as a high-end surface combatant with large missile launchers, hypersonic strike, directed-energy defenses, and...
U.S. Navy railguns looked like a revolution: electromagnetic launch, hypersonic projectiles, long range, and a deep magazine that could ease missile shortages. The concept...
Summary and Key Points: The BBG(X) Trump-class battleship concept is colliding with a separate modernization priority: the DDG(X) next-generation destroyer. -Critics argue the two...