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.
.
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.
Most missiles today hitting them would just make a dent that could be easily buffed out.
Thank you. I wonder if indeed, we still have the shipyard drydock capability for major refitting of engine and drive systems for those Iowa Class battleships today? To make them reliable in battle and patrols.