The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital...
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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing...
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The Iowa-class battleships are the most heavily armed warships the United States Navy has ever put to sea, due to the continual development of their onboard...
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The Montana-class was a planned class of battleship for the United States Navy, intended as the successor to the Iowa class. They were to be slower but...
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) (redirect from Battleship New Jersey)
USS New Jersey (BB-62) is an Iowa-class battleship, and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. state of New Jersey....
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of the Cleveland-class light cruisers, the Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, the Alaska class, and even one of the Iowa-class battleships; in the end, they...
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) (redirect from Battleship Wisconsin)
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship. Completed in 1944...
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the main armament of the Iowa-class battleships and was the planned main armament of the canceled Montana-class battleship. Due to a lack of communication...
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The North Carolina class were a pair of fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s and early...
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USS Missouri (BB-63) (category Iowa-class battleships)
an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned...
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USS Kentucky (BB-66) (category Iowa-class battleships)
uncompleted battleship intended to be the last ship of the Iowa class. Hull BB-66 was originally to be the second ship of the Montana-class battleships. However...
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named after the ancient Yamato Province) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War...
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(BB-3). City of Art: USS Iowa (BB-4). The Patriot Files: USS Iowa (BB-4. DANFS: Iowa (BB-4). United States Navy: USS Iowa (Battleship # 4). Friedman (1985)...
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Rouge, Louisiana. Further filming was done on the decommissioned Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri. Featured in the film were the real-life guided missile...
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was an Illinois-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) a planned Columbia-class submarine SS Wisconsin...
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The first South Dakota class was a group of six battleships that were laid down in 1920 for the U.S. Navy, but were never completed. Considerably larger...
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appearance of the Kirov class (first exemplar commissioned in 1979) played a key role in the recommissioning of the Iowa-class battleships by the United States...
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USS Illinois (BB-65) (category Iowa-class battleships)
USS Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class fast battleship that was laid down for the United States Navy during World War II in the 1940s, although...
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over the effectiveness of naval gunfire support (NGFS) provided by Iowa-class battleships, and whether an alternative should be implemented. The debate centered...
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significant active service during the Cold War. The four American Iowa-class battleships were reactivated during the Korean War in the early 1950s and again...
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The South Dakota class was a group of four fast battleships built by the United States Navy. They were the second class of battleships to be named after...
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Treaty USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship of the Iowa-class battleship that saw action during World War II, the Korean War, and the Gulf War USS Iowa (SSN-797)...
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class of battleships, launched in 1898, renamed Prairie State in 1941 and sold for scrap in 1956 USS Illinois (BB-65), would have been an Iowa-class battleship...
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2009. Retrieved February 26, 2018 – via YouTube. "Home – USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park". ussalabama.com. Retrieved April 4, 2024. "USS ALBACORE...
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USS Missouri (redirect from Battleship Missouri)
USS Missouri (BB-11), a Maine-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922. USS Missouri (BB-63), an Iowa-class battleship in service (variably) from 1944...
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USS Iowa was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1890s. The ship was a marked improvement over the previous Indiana-class...
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Montana-class of battleships; however, the passage of an emergency war building program on 19 July 1940 resulted in both hulls being reordered as Iowa-class units...
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within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto...
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Kearsarge-class battleship launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet and sold for scrapping 23 January 1924 USS Kentucky (BB-66) was an Iowa-class...
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container for the BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile. Fitted to the Iowa-class battleship following their 1980s recommissioning upgrade, each ABL contains...
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