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The Navy’s Best Decision: $100,000,000 for an Iowa-Class Battleship
The Iowa-class embodied peak battleship power: fast, heavily armored, and devastating ashore. -Adjusted for inflation, they ...
Key Points and Summary - The recurring fantasy of reactivating the Iowa-class battleships is a "nostalgic delusion." -The 80-year-old warships are "logistical fossils" unsuited for modern war. With ...
During the lead-up to the United States' entry into World War II, the U.S. Navy ordered six new battleships that were designed to combat Japan's Kongō-class battleships. Ultimately, only four of the ...
The National Interest on MSN
Donald Trump Wants to Bring Back the Battleship. Can He?
While the current US Navy surface fleet leaves much to be desired, nostalgia and sentimentality for a bygone era isn’t the ...
In principle, I am all for fitting out a modern-day descendant of Iowa-class dreadnoughts. Whether doing so is practical is ...
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