The Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers are proceeding roughly on time to install the missile tubes and systems that will ...

The lead ship of the new Trump-class battleship is to cost as much as a Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Due to the ...

The Department of Defense has awarded a $14.2 million contract to Siemens Energy for developing an innovative modular energy ...

DDG 1000s, like the USS Zumwalt shown here, featured large naval guns, but the US Navy opted to buy more traditional guided-missile destroyers instead. (Janes/Michael Fabey) US President Donald Trump ...

In the designation BBG(X), BB means battleship, G means guided missile ship (i.e., a ship with a medium- or long-range air defense system), and (X) means the design of the ship has not yet been fully ...

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 ...

Last week, President Trump, with his customary fanfare, unveiled plans for a new “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships. “There’s never been anything like these ships,” the president declared as he ...

Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet is expanding fast in California, with more than a thousand cars now registered for paid service, but the program still relies on human drivers while true driverless prototypes ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected by the U.S. Navy to design and build the future small surface combatant (SSC) ship, leveraging the proven design of the Ingalls-built Legend-class ...

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President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on ...