{"id":27398,"date":"2026-01-01T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27398"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:19:15","slug":"the-cost-of-a-trump-class-battleship-will-be-the-same-as-that-of-an-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27398","title":{"rendered":"The cost of a Trump-class battleship will be the same as that of an aircraft carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an analysis by the American think tank CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), the first ship of the new \u201cTrump\u201d class battleships (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/golden-fleets-battleship-will-never-sail\">The Golden Fleet\u2019s Battleship Will Never Sail<\/a>&#8220;), recently announced by the American President for the US Navy, is expected to cost as much as a new \u201cFord\u201d class aircraft carrier, that is, about $ 13 billion. The analysis also recalls that the \u201cArleigh Burke\u201d class destroyers, the latest and most advanced Flight III version, have a displacement of 9,000 tons and cost $ 2.8 billion each. The analysis, signed by Mark Cancian, a retired colonel of the US Marines, concludes\/predicts that due to cost and other technical obstacles, the \u201cTrump\u201d class battleships will not be built in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new ships were announced by Trump himself on December 22. As announced, the ships will have a large displacement, between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, and will be the largest warships built by the US Navy in the last 80 years, with the exception of aircraft carriers. As an example, the analysis cites the \u201cZumwalt\u201d class destroyer program, which has a displacement of 15,000 tons and only three were built in 11 years, from 2005 when the program began, to 2016 when the first ship entered service. The \u201cTrump\u201d class battleships will have at least double the displacement, and will also be more complex (perhaps nuclear-powered, with laser weapons, etc.). According to current planning, the first ship (BBG-1, USS \u201cDefiant\u201d) should enter service around 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an analysis by the American think tank CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), the first ship of the new \u201cTrump\u201d class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[7683,7701,7682,7684,7700],"class_list":["post-27398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-trump-class","tag-american-battleships","tag-battleships","tag-golden-fleet","tag-uss-defiant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27400,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions\/27400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}