Do the rest of our Iowa-Class battle ships have the potential to be refitted and used or are they too far gone with needs for refitting beyond what we can reasonably still perform,,,? Ie PowerPoint, transmission systems, etc?
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All four existing Iowa-class battleships have been stricken from the Navy’s register of vessels. While they now serve as floating museums, believe it would be cost prohibitive, technologically challenging, and not strategically or operationally useful to update and commission them a fourth time.
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We’re moving to massive, relatively inexpensive unmanned intelligent systems for surface, subsurface, land, air, and space missions. We will fight remote pushbutton wars. Standby for Skynet to become active.
Over the years a couple have been refitted/upgraded multiple times, including the Wisconsin.