As he emphasized at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in the presence of Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan on Monday, December 22, these ships with a displacement of 30,000 to 40,000 tons will be equipped with advanced weapons, including hypersonic missiles. electric rail guns and powerful laser systems, as well as sea-launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads currently under development.
The new ships will be "a hundred times more powerful than any other warships ever built" and will become "the flagships of the American navy," the head of the American state said.
Thus, the Trump-class warships will be significantly larger than the destroyers and cruisers currently in service with the US Navy, but smaller than the Iowa-class battleships that were in service until the 1990s, the AFP news agency states.
According to Donald Trump, the construction of the first two warships of the new class will take about 2.5 years, over time their number in the US Navy will be increased first to 10, and then to 20-25. dw.com.
