Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts Experts described it as a "prestige project," a "bomb magnet" and said that "this ship will never sail." Even ...

The Trump-class Battleship probably won't get built, but the hull could serve as a basis for much-needed logistical ships. America’s new battleship is unlikely to survive President Donald Trump’s ...

I never thought I would say this in the year 2025, but here it is: the United States is working on a brand-new battleship, the likes of which the seas of the world have not seen in countless decades.

The Navy plans to bring back its heavily armed class of warship known as battleships, and it will arm them with the most modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, President Donald Trump announced ...

Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...