The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of the “Golden Fleet” effort,

In 1942, Britain faced a brutal Atlantic war and a shortage of steel, so an unlikely proposal emerged: building an aircraft carrier from ice. We followed Geoffrey Pyke’s idea from its early iceberg concept to the invention of pykrete,

The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” the president said.

The U.S. Navy is trying to grow and modernize its fleet at the same time its shipyards are struggling to find and keep enough skilled workers. The problem is not that the United States has forgotten how to build warships, but that the economic and cultural ...

November 6, 2025: In the last decade the emergence of China as the builder of most commercial ships had several dramatic side effects. American military and political leaders realized that China might become a military threat. There followed the ...