The Development of the Mark 7 16-Inch Gun on Iowa-Class In the late 1930s, the U.S. commissioned a set of studies for “fast battleship” designs. The General Board, which considered design ...

The Montana-class battleships were conceived during World War II as the ultimate in naval firepower. These leviathans would ...

If, of two such fleets, one were made up of four 20,000-ton battleships, each carrying eight 12- inch guns, the whole line would be about 2,100 yards in length; and if the other fleet consisted of ...