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Posted by Paul on January 27, 2026, 15:28:09, in reply to "BBG(X) article"
The administration wants at least twenty four of these ships, but presently the U.S. lacks the shipyard capability to produce that many ships this large within any reasonably foreseeable time frame, let alone without sacrificing work on other warships. 
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Here, another interesting article about the BBG(X) aka Defiant class aka Trump class:
The strategic logic and industrial peril of Trump’s battleship plan for the US Navy
The interesting final sentence:
"If industrial realities don’t halt the BB(X) project early on, then it’s quite likely future administrations will cancel, and a contingency plan is needed."
According to the article, the best contingency plan would be to continue the development of the cheaper and fast to built DDG(X).
The article discusses e.g. that this class is an departure of ‘distributed lethality’ concept - which would make the class a high priority target.
Compared to a Chinese Type 055, the BBG(X) cannot ship that much more missiles (16 more cells in the VLS plus the 12 CPS missile launchers), i.e. two Type 055 would be superior. It is high likely that China can built more than two Type 055 (or a future large PLAN destroyer) in the time the US is building one BBG(X).
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