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RE: Will the US reactivate the Iowa-Class Battleship? We have done it, why not again?

in #history • 8 years ago

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:

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