US Navy Seeks to Proliferate Hypersonic Missiles Across the Fleet

Statements by U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (RADM) Derek Trinque, the Director of Surface Warfare (N96) at the 2026 Surface Navy Symposium reveal the U.S. Navy’s intentions to spread the hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missiles throughout the surface fleet.

Largely, expansion plans within the surface fleet come in the shape of future large surface combatants, mainly aboard the new Trump -class Guided Missile Battleships or BBG(X) , with each vessel retaining space for 12 of the missiles in the bow. Currently, the U.S. surface fleet possesses no means of stand off Hypersonic strike, with the objective of this expansion likely to give a new round of capabilities back to the surface fleet.

This initiative partly came in lieu of the assessed limitations within the former next generation G