A $20B battleship the US abandoned after WWII is back in Trump's $1.5T defense budget. Experts say modern missiles will

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easily destroy it

President Donald Trump last month announced a record-setting $1.5 trillion defense budget for fiscal year 2027. But in that towering proposal, experts say there’s obvious signs of waste and overspend.

A recent Cato Institute report identified several weapons in next year’s defense budget request that the think tank deems unnecessary and ineffective. Among them is a battleship Trump announced in December, which the president named after himself. But the ship, in this case, the “Trump-class” battleship is what the Cato Institute considers to be technology so obsolete, as it’s from a time before the states of Alaska and Hawaii even existed.

Here’s the issue: the U.S. Navy hasn’t operated a battleship since the last Iowa-class vessel was retired in 1992, a type of vessel which hasn’t even been constructed since the mid-20th century. The Trump-class battleship, which the Department of Defense is requesting upwards of $1 billion to build, will inherently be stuck in WWII, and would be rendered helpless against modern-day weapons. In fact, despite the billion-dollar price tag, Cato puts the true cost at $20 billion apiece, and it still won’t be able to subvert modern-day, advanced anti-ship missiles.

“We haven’t used this since World War II,” Ben Giltner, policy analyst at Cato Institute, told Fortune, “because the aircraft was able to pick it off in the ocean.”

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