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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,...
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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...
Summary and Key Points: Huntington Ingalls’ CEO says the Navy will provide its first concrete design-schedule guidance for the BBG(X) “Trump-class” guided-missile battleship within...
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...
Key Points and Summary – President Trump’s call for a new “Trump-class” battleship with 120 VLS cells and hypersonic missiles faces skepticism due to...