The U.S. Navy is converting its Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers into what could become the first U.S. surface warships to deploy hypersonic weapons, replacing the ships’ original gun systems with ...

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 ...

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 ...

On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of “battleships” that will be 100 times more powerful than previous battleships and larger than any other surface combatant on the oceans. The ...

The total project is valued at $24.25 million, making it the largest capital investment in the battleship since it opened as ...

A special screening of an episode from HISTORY's "World War II With Tom Hanks" series was held on the ship's stern, offering ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Navy's new Trump-class battleship program will cost $275 billion, with the first ship costing $23.4 billion.

The Navy was not planning to unveil a new class of ship last year, much less two, but November and December brought the cancellation of a frigate program, the launch of another, and the comeback—at ...

The USS Massachusetts fired America's first 16-inch shell of World War II. It also fired the last. In 1942, the 680-foot battleship fired the first US 16-inch projectile of the war in combat with ...

When Eric Labs, senior analyst for naval forces and weapons at the Congressional Budget Office, put up a slide at a recent trade show that revealed his rough cost estimates for the Navy’s new ...