Trump announced plans to build new battleships for the Golden Fleet. What the media is writing
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US President Donald Trump has announced the creation of a new class of battleships, which will be named after him. It is planned that up to 25 new vessels will be built, from which the "Golden Fleet" will be formed. The ships will be armed with hypersonic weapons and lasers. How the world's media react to Trump's plans is in the Izvestia digest.
Reuters: Trump unveils plan to create "Trump-class" battleships
Trump announced on Monday plans to build a new class of "Trump battleships" — larger, faster and "100 times more powerful" than any previous ones. In order to strengthen the naval superiority of the United States, two ships will first be built as part of the expanded "Golden Fleet". Eventually, the project will be expanded to cover from 20 to 25 new vessels.
Reuters
The planned construction of warships will eventually result in "more tonnage and firepower under construction than at any time in history," said U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, adding that the components will be manufactured in every U.S. state.
Phelan said the battleships would be equipped not only with "the largest guns" ever deployed on American warships, but also with sea-launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads. The first of the new battleships will be named USS Defiant. In addition to the new class of battleships, the Golden Fleet provides for an increase in the number of other types of warships, including a more compact and maneuverable class of frigates, which was previously announced by the US Navy.
The Washington Post: Trump unveiled a new class of Navy battleships named after him
Trump said he would oversee the development of a new class of U.S. Navy battleships named in his honor. The move was partly seen as an attempt to revitalize the country's stagnant shipbuilding industry, but it would also reverse the norms of naming Navy ships and firmly integrate presidential politics into this program from the very beginning. The announcement follows a series of recent moves by Trump to rename existing institutions to include his name, including the U.S. Institute of Peace and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The Washington Post
Trump, speaking alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, said the new warships would be equipped with "guns and missiles of the highest level," as well as hypersonic weapons, electric rail guns and lasers. The first battleship, which will be named USS Defiant, will be part of a larger effort to create a modern "Golden Fleet" of warships, Trump said, indicating that he would play a leading role in this program.
In a press release issued after Trump's statement, the US Navy said that this vessel "will be the deadliest surface warship ever built" and will be three times larger than the current Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, which is about 154 m long and has a displacement of about 9,000 tons.
CNN: Trump's plan will either transform the U.S. Navy or sink it.
The US administration did not specify the time required for the design phase, as well as for the construction of the first two ships. The new battleship project will be carried out at the Naval shipbuilding base, which in recent years has had difficulty completing its tasks and, according to Phelan, has been in a state of chaos this year. Last month, he curtailed the Constellation-class frigate construction program, which was about three years behind schedule and was supposed to produce much smaller and less sophisticated warships than the new battleships that Trump is now proposing.
CNN
As for large, complex ships, the US Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS John F Kennedy, is about two years behind the planned delivery date, which was set for July this year. These delays are related to new landing systems and elevators for weapons, which the Navy is still trying to obtain certification for.
The question arises as to who will build the new battleships. American shipyards are already overloaded with ongoing construction, maintenance and major repairs. The Trump-class ships will need the same amount of dock space as the large amphibious and logistics ships that the Navy also needs, so the closed shipyards will need to reopen or build new ones.
The New York Times: The United States has not built battleships since World War II
Since his first term, Trump has criticized the appearance of the Navy and called for the return of World War II-era ships armed with 16-inch guns that were largely decommissioned in favor of aircraft carriers, whose warplanes could hit targets hundreds of times farther away. By ordering the construction of battleships, Trump seems to have paid homage to the old ships under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense again.
The New York Times
The last warships that the Navy classified as battleships — Iowa—class ships from World War II - represented something completely different from what Trump is proposing. At that time, the Navy had only four Iowa-class battleships, each with a displacement of approximately 60,000 tons when fully loaded.
The Iowa-class ships were decommissioned after World War II and periodically returned to service to participate in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. When they were reactivated as part of President Ronald Reagan's fleet expansion program in the 1980s, they were upgraded with the addition of anti-ship missiles, Tomahawk cruise missile launchers, and anti-missile guns. Trump's draft provides for the abandonment of large-caliber guns in favor of only two five-inch guns and a set of missiles already in service with the fleet.
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