Donald Trump's Golden Fleet

For any naval afficionados, Donald Trump's announcement about a new Golden Fleet of the biggest battleships the world has ever seen will have been confusing. First of all a battleship is a special breed of warship of its own. The last battleship in the US Navy was the USS Missouri which was commissioned in 1944 and served in the Second World War, the Korean war and the 1990 Gulf war. The mighty warship is now in a museum in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Some reports say the new "battleship", to be called USS Defiant, will be a bigger version of the current guided-missile destroyers or frigates. But Trump has called the new warships battleships, so I guess that's what they will be. The ships are expected to be 30,000-40,000 tons. Fully loaded, the USS Missouri was 58,000 tons. The US Navy's Constellation-class frigates are only 8,000 tons, and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are up to 9,700 tons. So Trump is right in saying that the planned new "battleships" will be bigger and better. But someone should make it clear whether these Golden Fleet warships are to be a new-style battleship or a much bigger destroyer/frigate. BUY AGENT REDRUTH, MY NEW SPY THRILLER. CHECK IT OUT ON AMAZON.