On December 22nd, 2025, our 47th President announced a new class of naval vessel: the “Trump-Class” battleship USS Defiant, designated BBG-1.

The TRUMP Battleship

David Reeder

The new surface warship will reportedly be the centerpiece of what the US Navy is calling the “Golden Fleet.” Technically, a guided missile battleship (which is why it’s a BBG and not a BB) will be the largest surface combatant the United States has built since WWII.

Featured image, above: Thanks to leaked information, this artist’s interpretation of BBG-1 is how those of us here at Breach-Bang-Clear picture the Trump Battleship “USS Defiant.” (If that’s really its name) Built in cooperation between the US Navy, Space Force, and Okita Shipyards, the imminently practical and utterly pragmatic BBG-1 would be the flagship of the “Golden Fleet.” It and an onboard complement of F-47 fighters would control both sea and sky.

According to the initial announcement by President Trump, SecWar Hegseth, and NavSec John Phelan, the Navy will initially purchase two of the “battleships” and intends to buy 20 or more additional vessels of the class eventually. Construction, they say, is planned to begin in 2030.

If commissioned, the class will add a nuclear cruise missile capability to America’s surface fleet.

USS Defiant BBG-1

Below, you’ll see a look at what the new Trump-class battleship will probably look like. Note that this is just an artist’s projection that isn’t nearly as cool as our version and shows it only in its surface combatant role, not in its transatmospheric mode.

Why the BBGs are to be called the Trump class instead of the Defiant class, if the USS Defiant is to be the first of her kind, was not addressed (but isn’t hard to guess). It could be ego on the part of Big Orange, but more likely it’s part of a counter-intelligence disinformation (or maybe misinformation?) campaign.

The following graphic is an estimated representation of the weaponry a Trump battleship would carry. You can find our version below.

USS Defiant: Armament and Specs (Supposedly)

The ships of BBG-1’s class will have a formidable array of weaponry at their disposal, and that’s just the ones they’ll tell you about. These include:

• Surface-Launched Cruise Missiles, Nuclear-Capable (SLCM-N)
• A 12-cell Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile system
• A 128-cell Mk 41 Vertical Launch System
• A 32-megajoule electromagnetic railgun
• Two x 5-inch guns (with hypervelocity projectiles)
• Two x Rolling Air Frame Missile (RAM) RIM-116 CIWS launchers
• Four x 30mm Mk 46 Mod 2 Gun Weapon Systems
• Four x AN/SEQ-4 Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN) lasers
• Two x anti-drone systems
• One enclosed hangar for VTOL/STOL or UAV aircraft

As for size, at ~880 feet long, the Trump-class (Defiant-class?) ships would be a couple of hundred feet shorter than the largest of our current supercarriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford (1,106 feet long), a couple hundred feet longer than WW1 battleships like the New York and Nevada classes, and approximately the same length as the four “fast battleships” of the Iowa class.

There there’s displacement. At 35,000 tons, it is slightly larger than the average WW1 BB, but just a bit smaller than the South Dakota, North Carolina, and Iowa class BBs of WW2. Ships like the Ticonderoga class cruisers Gettysburg (CG-64) and Chosin (CG-65), themselves smaller than other “Large Surface Combatants” (LSC) like the Zumwalt class guided missile destroyers, will be will be substantially smaller than Defiant if she ever actually puts to sea (or air).

Although there is a growing sentiment that ships as large as modern aircraft carriers are vulnerable to developing weapon technologies, POTUS 47 and the Chief of Naval Operations seem confident that the yuge Trump-class battleship can not only survive but also dominate the ocean in a big, bigly fashion. Maybe the bigliest.

What’s in a Name?

U.S. Navy vessels are traditionally named for the first commissioned (sometimes authorized) vessel of that specific design. This is called the lead ship. For instance, there are currently two Ford-class nuclear carriers (the USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, and the USS John F. Kennedy, CVN-79; the latter has yet to be commissioned).

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There are ten Nimitz-class carriers, including the Nimitz (CVN68), the Eisenhower (CVN-69) and the Carl Vinson (CVN-70). The USN’s carriers were named for battles, admirals, and political figures in the past, but in recent decades have been named after former US Presidents. The USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), named for an enlisted World War II Navy Cross recipient, may also indicate changes in naming conventions. The Miller is scheduled to launch in 2029.

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A similar naming convention applies to vessels of other classes, including submarines. LHA-6, USS America, is the lead ship of the America class of Landing Helicopter Assault amphibious assault ships. Others in her class include the Tripoli, Bougainville, Fallujah, and Helmand Province. The Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) was the first of more than 70 destroyers in her class, a number projected to reach 100, including the planned USS Kyle Carpenter (DDG-148), named for USMC Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter. There are three Zumwalt-class “stealth destroyers,”

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By tradition, then, BBG-1, the proposed USS Defiant, should be named the Defiant class. If there were to be a Trump class warship, it would (again, by tradition) normally be an aircraft carrier…although, to be fair, the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is a nuclear fast attack submarine of the Seawolf class. And for that matter, one of only a handful of ships of any kind to be named for a living person.

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Anyway, most people will tell you the reasons for this change in nomenclature are most likely similar to the ones that gave us the 47 part of F-47 air superiority fighter…the folks who’re read in on the TRansatmospheric Ultra Munitions Platform know better.

UNCLAS

LEAKED SPECS

As one can imagine, the full details of a vessel like the USS Defiant are hardly going to be public knowledge. Luckily for Breach-Bang-Clear readers, Senior Staff Writer Bucky Lawson has obtained exclusive information about what the new guided missile battleship will be able to do.

USS Donald J. Trump TRansatmospheric Ultra-Munitions Platform

A Breach-Bang-Clear exclusive from investigative drunkporter Bucky Lawson.

Although I cannot reveal my sources, it seems clear to us here at B-B-C that the initial USS Defiant specs are nothing but a smokescreen. The public details of its design, released analysis armament, even its name are all part of a clever ploy hatched on Signal to throw off wannabe naval powers like China, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Luckily, we’re plugged into some serious intelligence of the type that carries a death sentence for divulging the source. Or even thinking about divulging it. Your brain’s blood vessels spontaneously combust for even harboring such thoughts, so don’t ask.

The Defiant may well be built to the projected specs, but the real ship, the USS Donald J. Trump, will be rigged more like this:

Dimensions

• Overall Length: 1,123 ft. One foot longer than the longest warship ever built. Why say it’s yuge if it isn’t the yugest? Length is only expressed in feet because the metric system is un-American.

• Beam (Maximum): 129 feet. One foot wider than the largest battleship ever built. Same reason.

• Displacement: A lot. Tremendously displacing. No one knows displacement the way we do.

Propulsion & Performance

• Primary Lift/Propulsion: 8 x Quantum-Plasma Repulsor Anti-Gravity Arrays. Each rated at 203,000 tons of lift.

• Secondary Propulsion: 36 x Overpressure Afterburning Magneto-Aerospike Engines (total thrust of 4.8 million lbf.

• Tertiary Propulsion: 4 x Emergency “Covfefe” Warp-Burst Cylinders (These are still being adapted from technology gleaned from various UFO crashes, but they will bend space-time, albeit at a yuge energy cost.)

• Maximum Velocity: Mach 4.7

• Cruising Velocity: Dependent upon configuration, but definitely faster than Sleepy Joe’s Corvette.

• Service Ceiling: Wherever in the stratosphere it wants to go.

• Loiter Time: Forever if we want. We have the best fuel. Everyone agrees. Tremendous reserves.

Armor & Protective Systems

• Primary Belt Armor: Reactive Nano-Diamondanium Alloy. Equivalent to 47 feet of rolled homogeneous Class-A battleship steel armor.

• Citadel Armor: Same alloy but equivalent to 94 feet of RHA steel.

• Active-Protection System: 1,200 “Golden Dome” 360-degree multi-spectral laser + hypersonic kinetic + plasma-packet interceptors.

• Electronic Warfare Suite: Mk 45-47 cognitive jamming array that will make enemy radar operators question their life choices.

• Signature Management: Full-spectrum adaptive metamaterial Stealth Coat + “Make Radar Great Again” spoofing emitters

Main Battery

4 x “Big Beautiful” 32-inch Super-Heavy Trumpanium alloy Heavy Rail Guns

• Mk 47 “Penetrator” 4,700-lb. tungsten-carbide/uranium cermet dart (5.7 miles/s)

• Mk 88 Thermobaric submunitions bus (carries 1,440 x 110-lb. FAE bomblets)

• Mk 99 Variable-yield thermonuclear kinetic impactors. No one impacts targets like we do. Ask anyone.

Secondary & Tertiary Batteries

• 24 x Twin 16-inch Coil guns (120 rounds per minute combined)

• 96 Quad “Patriot Plus” 155mm hypervelocity Trumpanium railguns (anti-air/anti-missile/anti-attitude)

• 512 Vertical Launch Cells firing a mix of SM-8X “Very Stable Genius” hypersonic interceptors; “Low-IQ” swarm-killer submunitions; 10 megaton “City Buster” nuclear cruise missiles; and “Crooked” hypersonic anti-radiation missiles that harbor a personal hatred for enemy radar systems.

Close-in Weapons Systems (The “Nobody Comes Close” Suite)

• 1,440 x Mk 17 “Tiny Hands” 30mm Gatling plasma-pulse autocannons

• 288 x “Wall” 20mm point-defense lasers (1.2 megawatts each with 360-degree coverage)

• 96 x “Border Security” microwave pain-ray turrets

Air Component (Because Why Not?)

• 14 x F/A XX VTOL “Freedom Eagle X” 6th-Gen Stealth Air Superiority Fighters

• 56 x X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System fighters

• 8 x Osprey VTOL gunships with 420mm chain guns

• 4 x “Marine One Plus” VIP transport helicopters (gold-plated interior and 24-karat escalator because we do everything first-class)

Command & Control

• Primary CIC Designation: The Situation Room…but better

• Secondary Designation: The Yuge Room

Project Notations

Speaking on condition of anonymity, Rear Admiral Thomas “Tug” Benson told me, “The TRUMP isn’t just an aerial battleship. It’s the biggest, strongest, most tremendous thing to ever fly.”

Pressed for additional details, Benson revealed that, “Enemies will look at it and cry. Friends will look at it and say Wow!”

If I were describe this vessel in just one word, I’d have to say, very powerful. Very stable. Very classy. Nobody builds them better. Believe me.

President Trump Announces New Battleship

The official Navy press release reads, in part, as what is excerpted below. You can read the release in its entirety here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan, alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, announced their intent to construct a new class of American-designed battleships that will be the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed. The future USS Defiant (BBG 1) will be the first Trump class battleship and will be an unambiguous statement of American commitment to maritime superiority with the capability to distribute more firepower across the fleet than any other class of ship, for any Navy, in history…

…These new battleships will stand as the centerpiece of the Navy’s Golden Fleet initiative and will be the first of their kind, providing dominant firepower and a decisive advantage over adversaries by integrating the most advanced deep-strike weapons of today with the revolutionary systems of the years ahead.

Engineered to outmatch any foreign adversary, the new battleship class will be the centerpiece of naval power. At triple the size of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, its massive frame provides superior firepower, larger missile magazines, and the capability to launch Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles and the Surface Launch Cruise Missile-Nuclear…

…The Trump class will be capable of operating in a traditional Integrated Air and Missile Defense role with a Carrier Strike Group or commanding its own Surface Action Group for Surface and Anti-Submarine Warfare efforts in addition to delivering long range hypersonic strategic fires and quarterbacking the operations of an entire fleet as the central command control node.

Learn more about the new battleships at USNI News.