India, Dec. 23 -- President Donald Trump is moving forward with a high-profile naval initiative to create a "Golden Fleet" with the introduction of a new "battleship."

"We're calling it the Golden Fleet that we're building for the United States Navy. As you know, we're desperately in need of ships. Our ships are some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete," Trump said.

The fleet would include up to 50 support ships and a new, huge "surface combatant class" of ship, according to retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who is now a senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

The Wall Street Journal stated, citing a source, that the first vessel in the fleet will be called USS Defiant and that the new class of battles...