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- Missiles:
- Surface Launch Cruise Missile Nuclear (SLCM-N) (possibly «low yield» sub-10 kiloton W76 mod 2 warhead)
- 12 cells Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS)
- 128 cells Mk 41 Vertical launching system (VLS)
- Guns:
- 1 * 32 MJ railgun (possibly Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun)
- 2 * 5" gun with hypervelocity projectile
- Anti-missile lasers:
- 2 * 300 kW or 2 * 600 kW lasers
- Others:
- 2 * RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launchers
- 4 * 30 mm guns (possibly Mk 46 Mod 2 Gun Weapon System)
- 4 * AN/SEQ-4 ODIN lasers
- 2 * Counter-unmanned aerial vehicle/unmanned surface vehicle systems
- 1 * V-22 & FVL
The Trump-class is a proposed class of battleships, large surface combatants for the United States Navy announced by U.S. President Donald Trump during a press conference in 2025. It adds nuclear capability to the U.S. Navy surface fleet with a cruise missile modality. The project has been criticized as a vanity project aimed to serve Trump's branding rather than actual Navy needs.
The Navy has not had a battleship commissioned since the retirement of the last Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), decommissioned in 1992, and has not had a new planned battleship class since the Montana-class battleship, canceled in 1943. The retirement of the Iowa-class battleships led to a battleship retirement debate on how the Navy should replace their capabilities; the Zumwalt-class destroyer was developed to replace their gunfire support function, but the class was cancelled after only three ships were constructed. Other vessels have been constructed, with some notable vessels named after living Americans, including submarine USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) and carriers USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), and USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), named after (then) living presidents.
The announcement of the class comes amidst warnings by US officials that Chinese shipbuilding has surpassed the United States in capacity and output, and is part of the Trump administration's enlargement of the US Navy.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that two ships would initially be constructed, with a total of 10 currently planned, and eventual plans for «between 20 and 25» as part of a «Golden Fleet». The first ship is planned to be named USS Defiant (BBG-1). US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan stated that the ships are planned to carry conventional guns and nuclear-armed cruise missiles.
The Navy has developed a 300 kW High-Energy Laser Counter-ASCM Program (HELCAP) c. 2026.
The Department of Energy developed a «low-yield» sub-10-kiloton variant of the W76 missile warhead, the W76 mod 2, during the first Trump administration.
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