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If it doesn’t have a 16 inch battery, it’s not a BB:)
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Brits had 18” in WWI

and then there is the Yamato had 9 of them bad boys ....greatest Kamikaze of all time.
Gave it enough fuel to get to Okinawa...

Class & type: Yamato-class battleship
Displacement: 65,027 tonnes (64,000 long tons)[4]
71,659 tonnes (70,527 long tons) (full load)[4]
Length: 256 m (839 ft 11 in) (waterline)
263 m (862 ft 10 in) (overall)[4]
Beam: 38.9 m (127 ft 7 in)[4]
Draft: 11 m (36 ft 1 in)[4]
Installed power: 150,000 shp (111,855 kW)[4]
Propulsion:

12 Kampon boilers, driving four steam turbines[4]
Four three-bladed propellers[4]

Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)[4]
Range: 7,200 nmi (13,334 km; 8,286 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[4]
Complement: 2,500–2,800[4][5]
Armament:
(1941) 9 × 46 cm (18.1 in) (3×3)[4]

12 × 155 mm (6.1 in) (4×3)[4]
12 × 127 mm (5.0 in) (6x2)[4]
24 × 25 mm (0.98 in) (8×3)[4]
4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA (2×2)[4]
Armament:
(1945) 9 × 46 cm (18.1 in) (3×3)[6]

6 × 155 mm (6.1 in) (2×3)[6]
24 × 127 mm (5.0 in) (12x2)[6]
162 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Anti-Aircraft (52×3, 6×1)[6]
4 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA (2×2)[6]
Armor: 650 mm (26 in) on face of main turrets[7]
410 mm (16 in) side armor[7]
200 mm (7.9 in) central(75%) armored deck[7]
226.5 mm (8.92 in) outer(25%) armored deck[7]
Aircraft carried: 7[7]
Aviation facilities: 2 aircraft catapults[7]

I was a marine on board the USS ranger from 85-87. Some of the worst times of my life because of a tough gunny and CO. Some of the best times of my life because of my fellow marines and shipmates. Hate to see her scraped!!

I recently toured the USS Wisconsin at Norfolk. She has 9 16” guns and is touted to be able to hit a tank from 20 miles with a shell as heavy as a Volkswagen. We need one modern version of this ship for each state.