"Why The Iowa-Class Battleships Were The Best Battleships" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Oct 2022 9:17 p.m. PST |
…Ever "Iowa-class: The Best Battleships To Ever Sail? You Decide –The Second World War marked the end of the Age of Battleships. Aircraft carriers, with their flexible, long-range striking power made battlewagons obsolete in a matter of months. American battleships, once expected to fight a decisive battle in the Pacific that would halt the Japanese Empire, were instead relegated to providing artillery support for island-hopping campaigns. Yet after the war, America's battleships would return, again and again, to do the one thing only battleships could do: bring the biggest guns around to bear on the enemy. The U.S. Navy ended World War II with twenty-three battleships of all types. By 1947, the Navy had shrunk to peacetime levels that preserved half of the number of wartime aircraft carriers but cut the number of battleships on active duty to just four. Of the four remaining ships, all were members of the latest—and last—run of battleships, the Iowa class: Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin. By the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, only one battleship, Missouri, remained on active duty…"
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| pikeman666 | 10 Oct 2022 6:53 a.m. PST |
This is clearly the most advanced battleship. They were well thought out, loved by their crews and expertly used despite not having been used in a Jutland style engagement with the Japanese. The air arm was correctly known to be the deciding factor. |
| JMcCarroll | 10 Oct 2022 1:53 p.m. PST |
Speed and radar controlled guns. |
| OSCS74 | 10 Oct 2022 3:19 p.m. PST |
Mark I Fire Control Computer, until GPS, I doubt that a more accurate system was ever made. Former Iowa sailor. |
| Tango01 | 10 Oct 2022 3:59 p.m. PST |
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 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 10 Oct 2022 6:23 p.m. PST |
Vanguard was a better sea boat though. :). Meaningless in the long run though. |
| hindsTMP | 18 Oct 2022 7:40 a.m. PST |
Popular with American authors (I am American), and probably a decent design for the displacement, but never really tested defensively in battle, which probably enhanced their reputation beyond that of contemporaries which were so tested. For example, according to Friedman, Both the Iowas and South Dakotas had an issue with underwater protection. Both extended the main belt down behind the torpedo defense system to protect against diving shells. This armor layer, being of a different composition than the other torpedo bulkheads, could shatter rather than deform, sending chunks of material into the interior of the ship. MH |
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