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The U.S. Navy Once Dreamed of Building a "Battlecarrier" Even after the retirement of the last battleship, the idea of combining surface warships characteristics with aviation capabilities continues to entice major navies. Heres What You Need to Know: Over the long history of the Iowa-class, several proposals emerged for converting them into hybrid battlecarriers. The dream of the battlecarrier did not die in World War II, despite the substandard performance of many of the converted ships, and...

What stopped them? Heres What You Need to Remember: After the war navies faced the same problem that they had suffered after World War I, a surplus of large battleship hulls. The dream of the battlecarrier did not die in World War II, despite the substandard performance of many of the converted ships, and despite the severe demands that jet aviation would put on modern flight decks.   Indeed, the possibilities offered by new technologies kept generating proposals for new battlecarrier configu...