{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_iwshytgrpruoompxkwfa","title":"The Navy Built Its Last Battleship in 1944. Now It Wants 15 New Ones Armed With Hypersonics Instead of 16-Inch Guns","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/the-navy-built-its-last-battleship-in-1944-now-it-wants-15-new-ones-iwshytgrpr","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_iwshytgrpruoompxkwfa","seq":1446769,"kind":"article","title":"The Navy Built Its Last Battleship in 1944. Now It Wants 15 New Ones Armed With Hypersonics Instead of 16-Inch Guns","url":"https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/10/the-navy-built-its-last-battleship-in-1944-now-it-wants-15-new-ones-armed-with-hypersonics-instead-of-16-inch-guns","summary":"The Iowas came back in the 1980s for $435 million each with 32 Tomahawks bolted on deck. USS Zumwalt traded its guns for 12 hypersonic tubes. Now the Navy wants 15 nuclear battleships at 35,000 tons, and a CSIS analyst says the ship will never sail.","published":"2026-10-02T19:44:17Z","seen":"2026-10-02T23:15:19Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-19fortyfive-com-a82c5c","name":"19fortyfive.com","domain":"19fortyfive.com"},"via":"kite-19fortyfive-com-a82c5c","topics":["defense","aerospace & defense","battleship","battleships","iowa-class","military","navy","trump-class"],"authors":["Harry J. Kazianis"],"entities":[{"id":"Q559549","name":"United States Naval Academy","type":"org"}],"story":"st_iwshytgrpruoompxkwfa","category":"conflict-war","category_p":0.2800000011920929,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.23000000417232513,"political":0.3499999940395355}]}