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There's never been anything like these ships. These have been under design consideration for a long time. And it started with me in my first term because I said, why aren't we doing battleships like we used to? And the. These are the best in the world. They'll be the fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built. So if you look at the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama and others, but they're, they were similar in size, some a little bit bigger than the others. But if you take the biggest one, it's 100 times more powerful. They're longer by a little bit, but the. And they're bigger. They're bigger ships, but they hold much more. They use the word lethality. Battleships are the largest, sturdiest and most heavily armed vessel built specifically for naval combat. While America has built many new warships over the years, they've been, they've tended to be smaller and much smaller and not conducive to where we are and where we're going. And peace through strength. But including, we've been building aircraft carriers. We're going to be upping that also. We're going to be going to a superior aircraft. We have the Ford class. We're going to be upping that to a different class of aircraft carrier. And we haven't built a battleship since 1994. These cutting edge vessels will be some of the most lethal surface warfare ships. They will be actually the most ever built. Other than our submarines, we have submarines which will have in many ways even more lethality. And we have many of them under construction. Each one of these will be the largest battleship in the history of our country. The largest battleship in the history of the world ever built. And again, it's 100 times more powerful than the previous Iowa class. It's called. Those are the big ones that you'd see on a show. Victory at Sea. I don't know if anyone's seen Victory at sea, but it was a classic. They'll help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American shipbuilding industry and inspire fear in America's enemies all over the world. We want respect. We're going to have it. We already have it. We're more respected now than we ever were a year and a half ago. They laughed at us. Now they respect us again at levels that they've never respected us. We envision that these two ships we're talking about 10 but we're going to start with two and we're going to quickly morph into 10. And ultimately we think it's going to be anywhere from 20 to 25 of these. But we're starting with the first two immediately. And we're going to then be very quickly involved with. I think we're going to do another eight. And then we're going to ultimately and pretty quickly have a total of about 20 to 25. We'll make that determination. We envision that these ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships to be produced in the years to come. From Theodore Roosevelt, the Great White Fleet. You remember that, the Great White Fleet. To the legendary USS Missouri, whose massive guns helped win World War II. America's battleships have always been unmistakable symbols of national power. We stopped making them for whatever reason, I don't know. And I want to congratulate John Thalen, who is your secretary, Secretary of the Navy. He came to me the first day we met. He talked about battleships. And I said, you're absolutely on the right track. He said, why are we doing other things? We have missiles, which are much more expensive, by the way. These battleships have tremendous numbers of missiles, but they also have guns. And in many ways guns can do the trick just as well as missiles at a tiny fraction of the cost. Once completed, these new 30 to 40,000 ton plus vessels will be the flagships of the American naval fleet. And there'll be never, there has never been anything built like them. And I just want to. I want to be very clear that we're building them here. We're working with others, but we're building them here. We have great Navy yards. We'll be negotiating with some of the companies that are running those yards, taking over the yards we used to build a ship a day during World War II. Now we don't do ships very much anymore. We do military ships, we do submarines. By the way, we're 15 to 20 years advanced in our submarines over anybody else. That was one of the things that I did in my first term. We make the best submarines by far in the world, where we're at least 15 years advanced ahead of anybody else in submarine development. Most powerful. That's right. The most powerful weapon anywhere in the world. Undetectable. So the battleships are going to be armed just in terms of guns and missiles at the highest level. They'll also have hypersonic weapons, many hypersonic weapons, state of the art electric rail guns, and even the high powered lasers that you've been starting to read about we have lasers where you aim the laser at a target, it just wipes it out. We're going to have. There'll be the most sophisticated lasers in the world. And the most sophisticated laser in the world will be on the battleships that we're building. They'll also carry the nuclear arms sea launched cruise missiles currently under development which will be instituted pretty quickly, but they're under development and they've proven to be extremely lethal. The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me because I'm a very aesthetic person alongside our partners in American industry. And we're going to have Pete Hegseth and Marco and a lot of very talented people involved. But a lot of it's already been done. We've been doing this for months. The construction will create thousands of American jobs. We're going to have the jobs be created. I mean already we have factories being built unrelated to this. Although AI will be a big factor when it comes to these ships. They'll be very AI AI controlled. Today's announcement is yet another step in our mission to make the United States Navy stronger than ever before. Again, when you talk about 100 times the power of these massive ships that we had years ago, it's pretty amazing. And next week I'm going to meet with the defense prime contractors. I'm going to meet with them here, Florida and we're going to be talking about production schedules because they're too slow. We have many countries allies that are wanting to buy. We make the greatest equipment in the world by far. Nobody is even close. But they don't produce them fast enough. So we're going to be meeting with them to talk about the production schedules. We're going to have strong production schedules and the only way they're going to be able to do that is to build new plants. Even with the F35 we have many people want the F35 fighter jet and it takes too long to deliver them to allies or to ourselves takes too long. The only way they're going to be able to deliver them is if they build new plants. They don't want to build new plants because that's expensive. So we're going to be discussing production schedules, we're going to be discussing capex spending. We'll be discussing the pay to executives where they're making 45 and $50 million a year and not being able to build quickly. They're going to make that kind of money. They have to build quickly again. We make the best equipment in the world, but they don't make them fast enough. And we're going to be also discussing dividends. We want the dividends to go into the creation of production facilities. So we'll be talking about all capex dividends and the pay. We're also going to be talking about buybacks. They spent so much money on buybacks. They want to buy back their stock. I don't want them to buy back their stock. I want them to put the money in plant and equipment so they can build these planes fast, rapidly, like immediately. I mean, I have sold more planes than any president by far times, probably 20. Every time I go someplace I sell 100 planes. That includes commercial planes, Boeings, et cetera. But it also includes fighter jets. And I'm always having to say five years, six years, seven years, helicopters, Apache helicopters, many years. India bought them, they want to get them. They don't want to wait a long time. So we don't want to have executives making $50 million a year issuing big dividends to everybody and also doing buybacks. And then they say, well, we don't have the money to build the plant. They got to build plans. Plans to make F35s, plans to make helicopters, plans to make the F47 new jet. And that's it. And that's what I'm going to be talking to them about. They're going to start spending money on building airplanes and ships and the things that we need not in 10 years and 15 years. We need them now and we're strong about it. Last week the Navy announced a brand new class of frigate and they're going to be working with the South Korean company Hanwha, good company, recently agreed to invest $5 billion in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. We're opening up the Philadelphia shipyard. Once a great yard, now it was, it was a long time ago decommissioned, but now it's reopening. Working with the Navy and working with private companies. The record setting defense bill I signed last week authorized $26 billion to build new ships, including destroyers and various others. We already have a lot of submarines, as you know, under construction. We're building a lot of submarines. I tell you to be exact, we have right now 15 submarines under construction or ready to start. And we have again the greatest submarine in the world. With our technology, like they talk about chips. Well, I would say submarines are a bigger deal than tips. We have. We're at least, at least 15 years ahead of any other competitor. China, Russia, nobody can come close. We're also building right now three large aircraft carriers in addition to the Ones we have and we have actually, interestingly, we have a lot of submarines. How many submarines do we have now altogether, approximately, huh?
