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They were a maintenance nightmare, too costly to update and had to maintain too large a crew. The Navy in continually attempting to reduce required manning on all its vessels due to costs.
Yeah, the American version of the Maginot Line. We have scads of aircraft carriers in case we need to refight the battles of Midway and the Phillipine Sea; we should have battleships in case we need to refight Guadalcanal, Jutland or the Denmark Straits.
I agree bring the ships back. Those Somali pirates would think twice it they saw an Iowa class battleship staring them down.
Unfortunately, even the military forces currently there can't do anything about the pirates. Its not the weapons involved its the willpower. The Iowa would just provde more sailors to wave at the pirates as they go by then a DD would.
Iowas make for a great show, but they would be missle sponges in a Great powers war. And since all the targets we need to hit during regional conflicts or COIN ops are'nt located w/in 20 miles of a deep water coastline Carriers and their CAG's are much better power projectors.
DDG's can do 40 knots no sweat. See one of those suckers coming at ya with 100 tomahawks on board! Whew!
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