I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: The Iowa class battleship is quite simply the prettiest thing ever put to sea. Great lines.
It’s probably cost prohibitive to rehab them thoroughly enough, and repower them as nuclear. But dang... if only we could build a couple of new ones... nuclear powered... armored to the hilt... some big guns... some missiles... [sigh]
The odd thing is that they’re probably the only ships in the inventory that might actually survive a modern missile strike.
It was a fascinating, graphic look at those battles so many people know so little about.