At best, the Navy will receive three troublesome ships that will cost more than $10 billion each before then entire scheme is abandoned By Dan Grazier President Trump announced on December 22 that the Navy would build a new Trump-class of “battleships.” The new ships will dwarf existing surface combatant ships. The first of these planned ships, the expected USS Defiant, would be more than three times the size of an existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Predictably, a major selling point for the new ships is that they will be packed full of all the latest technology. These massive new battleships will be armed … Continue reading Trump’s big, bad battleship will fail