battleship

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Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, which build the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and had been designing a new generation of destroyers, are now designing the new Trump-class battleship.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

“I think we’re trying to understand all the proper trade offs, and then think about it as a battleship strike group and a carrier strike group.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

The frigate's role was to act as a first line of defence by circling battleship HMS Warspite and it was expected that the sailors would sacrifice their lives.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

She stood at the kitchen window and held them up to her eyes as if she were the captain on the bridge of a battleship.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos