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In the 1980s, the US Navy decided to modernize the Iowa Class battleship after they were put back into service. This is the time when many ideas llike supercarriers were floated, as the next upgrades for the large battlehips but was not push through.
Iowa s class warships were built in the Second World War, they were Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, and Wisconsin as the biggest ships in the US Navy. Each one was almost 900-feet long with a 60,000-ton displacement, with 9-inch guns firing heavy projectiles to any target.