Details of Trump’s Nuclear Battleship Emerge in New Navy Shipbuilding Blueprint

The U.S. Navy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Shipbuilding Plan is offering the clearest picture yet of the Trump administration’s new battleship program, revealing a nuclear-powered surface combatant designed around hypersonic weapons, massive electrical generation capacity, and future directed-energy systems.

Buried deep inside the Navy’s FY2027 Shipbuilding Plan is one of the first detailed public descriptions of the next-generation battleship program, identified as BBGN — short for guided missile nuclear battleship. The Navy plans to procure three of the ships across the FY2027-FY2031 defense plan.

The shipbuilding plan confirms several details that had previously only been hinted at publicly by Navy officials and