[BenLurkin]

Giver her a nuclear power plant, pull off two of the big turrets and replace then with VLS weaponry, manufacture remaining new ammunition’s for her main battery, add modern secondary batteries and CIWS....send her up and down the Taiwan Straight nonstop.

[freedumb2003]

>>Giver her a nuclear power plant, pull off two of the big turrets and replace then with VLS weaponry, manufacture remaining new ammunition’s for her main battery, add modern secondary batteries and CIWS....send her up and down the Taiwan Straight nonstop.<<

Sounds like they already did that sans nukes. She is a floating armament platform:

From the article:

President Ronald Reagan called for a 600-ship U.S. Navy in the 1980s, and as a result, the Iowa-class battleships were reactivated and upgraded with new combat systems that replaced many of the ships’ smaller five-inch guns with a launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles, thirty-two Tomahawk cruise missiles and four Phalanx close-in weapon systems (CIWS). Initially equipped with 40mm anti-aircraft guns, during the Cold War those were replaced with missiles, electronic-warfare suites, and Phalanx anti-missile Gatling gun systems.

[DarthVader]

Not going to happen!!!

[Yo-Yo]

Giver her a nuclear power plant, pull off two of the big turrets and replace then with VLS weaponry, manufacture remaining new ammunition’s for her main battery, add modern secondary batteries and CIWS....send her up and down the Taiwan Straight nonstop.

May as well also make the decks airtight and launch it into space...