The Iowa-class battleships were the pinnacle of American naval engineering and firepower. Conceived in the late 1930s and built during World War II, these ships were designed to be the fastest and ...

When it came to primary armament, the Iowa-class battleships carried three turrets with three 16-inch Mark 7 guns each. Two turrets were located at the fore of the warship and one at the back.

The Iowa-class battleship was 860 feet long at the waterline with a beam of 108 feet and a draft of 37 feet. Iowa’s total displacement was 58,460 tons after being designed with the “elevator ...

The Montana-class battleship plans differed from the Iowa-class in several notable ways, largely around the areas of offense and defense. While the Iowa class boasted nine 16-inch 50 cal. guns on ...

The mighty Iowa Class Battleships are known for their heavy armor, yet their bank vault-like conning towers were possibly the most blatant example of how over-engineered these vessels were so that ...

For its 1980s refit, the Iowa-class battleships had a full displacement of 55,450 tons, 10,000 tons more than they had during WW2. Their dated anti-aircraft guns were also replaced with modern ...

Each refurbished Iowa-class ship had 32 Tomahawk missiles in Armored Box Launchers (ABLs.) In the early 1980s the Navy reactivated all four battleships, this time upgrading them with modern weapons.