More aircraft carriers for the USN

During his visit to the Newport News shipyard, Virginia, in early March as part of a pre-commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, President Donald Trump has announced plans to augment the US Navy into having a 12-carrier fleet. He said that, “In these troubled times, our Navy is the smallest it’s been since World War One, and have plans to undertake a major expansion of our entire navy fleet, including having the 12-carrier Navy we need.” He stressed that aircraft carriers are the “centrepiece” of US military capability.