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As commander in chief, it's my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new, very large, largest we've ever built battleships. You know, you used to build the Iowa, the Missouri, the Wisconsin, the Alabama, many others. We had big battleships. These are bigger, but they will have 100 times the – they'll be 100 times the force, the power. And 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. You look at the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama, and others, but they were similar in size. Some are 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.
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