Trump Class: U.S. plans USS Defiant, largest U.S. surface combatant since World War II

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00:00it's the first renderings of what we're doing so I want to wish everybody a big hello and Merry

00:15Christmas and welcome to Mar-a-Lago for this exciting announcement of the new golden fleet

00:22we're calling it the golden fleet that we're building for the United States Navy as you know

00:27we're desperately in need of ships our ships are some of them have gotten old and tired and

00:32obsolete and we're going to go the exact opposite direction we're delighted to be joined by Secretary

00:39of War Pete Hegseth who's doing a fantastic job and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan Marco Rubio

00:46is here who gave a great few words toward the end of last week he spoke for a couple of hours on

00:54what a good job we're doing which is true as commander-in-chief it's my great honor to

01:00announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new

01:05very large largest we've ever built battleships you know you used to build the Iowa the Missouri

01:15the Wisconsin the Alabama many others we had big battleships these are bigger but they will have

01:22100 times the there'll be 100 times the force the power and there's never been anything like these

01:33ships these have been under design consideration for a long time