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 ...

Iowa-Class Battleships: Giants of the Sea That Shaped Histor. One of the most iconic vessels in the history of naval warfare is the battleship. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Battleships. All four Iowa-class battleships are currently museums you can tour. I've checked out the USS Iowa, which is in Los Angeles, and the USS Missouri, in Hawaii.

Two refit Iowa Class battleships, the nuclear guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach, a Spruance Class destroyer and what looks like a pair of Knox Class frigates all churn through the ocean as a ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with nine 16-inch guns capable of hurling 2,700-pound shells over 23 nautical ...

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.