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The Iowa-class battleships fired a 16-inch gun that hit almost as hard as Japan’s 18-inch Yamato guns, at three-quarters the weight. Here’s what actually made it the be…

The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest ...
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America started digging a bigger Panama Canal for battleships it never built. The ships were canceled in 1943 — but the ditches became part of the canal supertankers use today

America's last and largest battleships were ordered, numbered, and never built. The Montana-class would have out-gunned the Iowa, matched Japan's Yamato, and been too wide to fit through the Panama ...