A new class of ship may be entering service for the U.S. Navy soon, and it has some distinct differences from previous ships.

Battleships once ruled the seas, but they have since been replaced by aircraft carriers. The idea of returning to this ...

President Donald Trump unveiled an ambitious naval expansion plan on Monday in an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. He announced plans for a new fleet of battleships called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adm. Daryl Caudle, seen here on Aug. 25, 2025, called the new Trump-class battleships "badass" at a military conference in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.

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 ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato. Escorted by the light cruiser Yahagi and eight ...