The U.S. Navy has said it will build a new “agile” class of small warship as part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Fleet.” Hints first emerged about the White House’s plans for a “Golden Fleet” in ...

Navy Secretary John Phelan said the move would enable the service to build other classes of ships faster. The Constellation-class has been facing delivery delays, design problems, and rising costs.

The Trump administration has announced that it wants to build a new class of battleships. But this is just one element of the Golden Fleet –a larger program of naval reform aimed at a major ...

Few modern American warships have drawn as much criticism as the Littoral Combat Ships. Conceived after 2001 as small, fast, shallow water vessels meant to counter threats near coastlines, they were ...

President Donald Trump unveiled a new “Trump class” of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an “old and tired and obsolete” US fleet. “They’ll help ...

The US Navy’s beleaguered shipbuilding program took a major hit on Tuesday as Navy Secretary John Phelan announced he was cancelling plans to buy Constellation-class frigates, once heralded as a key ...

President Donald Trump announced new "Trump-class" ships for the US Navy Golden Fleet. Trump said that up to 25 ships will be built, with construction set to start immediately. The Navy said these ...

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Even casual observers of the United States military and its associated defense industries likely know that America is currently in the midst of major changes and updates to its fleet of ships and ...