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The Navy’s $275 billion gamble: Inside the Trump-class battleship

The Trump class would be the most expensive surface combatant the United States Navy has ever proposed. The military logic behind it is real but unproven. Washington wants a nuclear-powered ship with ...
WAVY

Inside Spanish Navy’s Juan Carlos I assault Ship

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It’s known as Spain’s Jewel of the Crown, and it’s one of 33 ships participating in FLEETEX250. “We are serious.” said the captain of the “Juan Carlos I,” Santiago Martínez Mata.
CNN

The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...
The Motley Fool

President Trump Wants a 355-Ship Navy -- and $306 Billion to Build It

It's not even technically legal, as the just-released U.S. Navy 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan points out. By law, the Navy requires a fleet of 355 ships. What's more, the plan laments: "Over the past two ...