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The U.S. Navy's Monster Battleships That Never Were
Key Point: The U.S. Navy never built more battleships after the Iowa class, let alone larger ones. The U.S. Navy’s most powerful battleships were never actually built. The five Montana-class battleships, leviathans designed to dwarf even the giant Iowa-class battleships, were authorized for construction but never built, victims of the ascendance of naval aviation. Nearly as large as a modern […]
