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President Donald Trump announced the US Navy will build a new \u201cTrump-class\u201d warship as part of the White House push to modernize the service\u2019s surface fleet and restore domestic shipbuilding.<\/p>\n
A poster displayed at the event at Trump\u2019s gilded Mar-a-Lago estate featured an artist\u2019s rendering of a sleek-looking warship dubbed the USS Defiant, cutting through choppy waters with a laser beam shooting from its deck and smoke billowing from a target in the background.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next to the ship was a picture of Trump raising his fist in the air in a near copy of the defiant pose he struck minutes after surviving an assassination attempt in 2024. Another poster shows a rendering of the vessel sailing by the Statue of Liberty<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re desperately in need of ships,\u201d Trump said. \u201cSome of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete, and we\u2019re going to go the exact opposite direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Navy is also pursuing a new frigate based off the Legend-class cutter as it looks to shore up a surface combatant fleet that is one-third the size the service needs, the service announced Dec. 19. The ship, dubbed the FF(X), will be built by Newport News, Virginia-based HII, whose Legend-class cutter will serve as the basis for the new vessel.<\/p>\n
The new ships are part of Trump\u2019s \u201cGolden Fleet\u201d bid to revive US shipbuilding and address shortfalls in smaller ships exposed by recent military operations around the world. Overhauling shipping has been one of the top defense-related priorities, with Secretary of State Pete Hegseth saying contractors need to speed up development of new weapons systems or lose government contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump had already linked himself to another new weapons system, the F-47 stealth, a nod to his place as the 47th president. He\u2019s also put his name on the newly anointed Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts and the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.<\/p>\n
The state of US shipbuilding is vastly behind China\u2019s production rate and the Trump administration is prioritizing investing in its shipbuilding industry to narrow the output gap. Trump created a new Office of Shipbuilding earlier this year with plans for tax incentives to attract companies to the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Oval Office announcement signifies \u201cthe Navy is trying to tap into the enthusiasm of the administration for shipbuilding and say, \u2018OK, you want to build ships, \u2014 let\u2019s come up with some new ships to build because you\u2019re going to if you have money and energy, let\u2019s apply that toward things that the Navy needs,\u2019\u201d Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said in an interview.<\/p>\n
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The cruiser would replace Arleigh Burke class destroyers, which have roughly four decades of service life left and are equipped with Aegis Combat Systems that provide missile defense capability.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration\u2019s first attempt to build a new frigate in the president\u2019s previous term ended with a significantly delayed and over-budget program. The original plan was to build 20 of the vessels to start, using a foreign design from Trieste, Italy-based Fincantieri SpA, whose Wisconsin-based subsidiary had been contracted to build the frigates. In order to adapt the design to meet US military standards, the ship\u2019s cost ballooned and the increased complexity led to production delays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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