Overview
- Speaking from Mar-a-Lago alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Navy Secretary John Phelan, Trump said the vessels would be 30,000–40,000 tons and serve as fleet flagships.
- Trump described planned armaments including hypersonic weapons, high‑power lasers, a railgun‑style main gun and the in‑development SLCM‑N nuclear cruise missile.
- Renderings provided to Naval News by the U.S. Navy depict SPY‑6 radars, large vertical launch cells, Rolling Airframe Missile launchers and integrated electronic‑attack suites on a design labeled USS Defiant.
- The president said the ships will be built at U.S. shipyards, predicted thousands of American jobs and announced meetings with defense contractors next week.
- A Pentagon source indicated the class could be named after the president as the 'class Trump,' while procurement details and independent technical verification have not been confirmed.