The following is the Dec. 30, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Guided Missile Battleship (BBG[X]) Program: ...

A new Congressional Research Service report presented lawmakers with issues to consider regarding the proposed BBG(X) ...

Trump announces Trump-class battleships for Golden Fleet: 30,000-ton giants, 100x Iowa power, USS Defiant first. $5B critics ...

Everything about the “Trump-class” battleship is a joke. The new vessel is not a battleship. It’s a plus-sized destroyer. Because the first ship of the line is set to be christened the USS Defiant, ...

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build ...

Critics have rightly lambasted the Zumwalt-class destroyers as “ships without a mission,” plagued by technological overreach and operational irrelevance. There has been a strange push to claim the ...

They will have 100 times the force, the power [of earlier warships], and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump declared.

US President Donald Trump said he has approved a plan for the US Navy (USN) “to begin the construction of two brand-new, very ...

The ship will displace more than 35,000 tons and be capable of speeds exceeding 30 knots, according to the Navy. The ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered the guided missile destroyer USS Ted Stevens to the the U.S. Navy, the company ...

President Donald Trump unveiled plans for a “Trump-class” battleship on Monday that will carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles — the first time a surface ship will be armed with such weapons since the ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...