JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump announced plans to build a new large warship for the US Navy. The warship is part of Trump's vision for what he calls creating a "Golden Fleet."
"These ships will be the fastest, largest, and much more powerful, 100 times, than any warship ever built," Trump claimed during an announcement at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Tuesday, December 23, quoted from AP.
According to Trump, the equipment will be longer and larger than the World War II-era US Iowa-class warships.
The plan, he said, is for the warship to be armed with hypersonic missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers - all technologies still being developed by the US Navy.
Less than a month ago, the US Navy delayed plans to build new small warships on the grounds that the cost of construction was swelling.
The US Navy then decided to use a modified version of a recently produced US Coast Guard patrol boat.
The US Navy has also failed to build other new designs, such as the Ford-class aircraft carrier and the Columbia-class submarine, on time and on budget.
Historically, the term warship refers to a very specific type of ship, namely a large, heavily armored ship armed with large cannons designed to bombard other ships or targets on land.
This type of ship reached the peak of its glory during World War II, and the largest US warship, the Iowa class, weighed around 60,000 tons.
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