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RE: Will the US reactivate the Iowa-Class Battleship? We have done it, why not again?
Now what would be cool would be to replace the 16 inch guns with missle tubes. That would bring them up into the 21st centruy. Unless railguns become workable.
I don't think they would use the platforms without the Big Guns.
A proposed design for the Iowa class before modernization was a VSTOL platform. A fairly current white paper discusses the idea in a modern sense with F-35's.
http://www.combatreform.org/battleships.htm
A more modest design retaining the rear 16inch turret:
