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 ...

Donald Trump's much-hyped new battleship fleet, named after himself, "will never sail," a group of experts told CNBC in a new report, owing to the outdated design that will make them a "bomb magnet" ...

While the Chinese are placing vertical launched missiles in boxes aboard container ships to augment their navy, we are ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Yet there’s good reason why the Defiant, when it’s laid down in 2030, will be the first new American battleship in more than ...

Conceived in secrecy and built to dominate any naval battle, Yamato embodied Japan’s decisive battle doctrine. Armed with ...

After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a break before the next crisis in ...

The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

The Navy plans to bring back its heavily armed class of warship known as battleships, and it will arm them with the most modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, President Donald Trump announced ...

President Donald Trump has announced the construction of two new "Trump-class" battleships that would be the first in a "Golden Fleet" of Navy ships in the latest instance of Trump naming things after ...

President Donald Trump on Monday announced a new battleship class for the U.S. Navy, called Trump-class battleships. Trump, who has previously criticized the appearance of Navy warships, expects the U ...

President Trump on Monday announced plans to build a new fleet of Navy battleships, anchoring what he called the Pentagon's "Golden Fleet." The president said he approved plans to begin constructing ...