Yes, a new Trump class of battleship. You can’t make this chit up. Unclear what makes it a battleship, and I suspect the chances of them being built is nadda, but:
“The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II.
The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of the “Golden Fleet” effort, President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan announced Monday at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump said the Navy will start by purchasing two ships and eventually purchase 10, with a goal of 20 to 25 in total for the class with the start of construction planned for 2030.
“The U.S. Navy will lead the design, along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said.
Images of a future USS Defiant (BBG-1) were featured alongside Trump, Hegseth and Phelan, as well as a ship logo based on the July 13, 2024, Evan Vucci photo taken shortly after Trump was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt amid his presidential campaign.
“The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,” Phelan said during the presentation. “Now there will be work for shipyards everywhere from Philadelphia to San Diego, from Maine to Mississippi, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, and for manufacturers that will build components for this battleship in every state.”
Aesthetics have no place in military weapons design, it needs to be All Function All The Time with the only “form” considerations being ergonomics, hydrodynamics/aerodynamics and signature-reduction.
Those long clipper bows on the Iowas are not there for beauty but for speed, a fast battleship that could more easily keep up with the carrier task forces. Otherwise we’d have just built more South Dakotas.
It’s not big enough! I want a three barrel turret befitting a battleship. It should fire three glow in the dark uranium depleted projectile that sends it like Rods From God “cuz ‘Murica” That’s a Trump class Battleship.
