Published on
Jan 4, 2026
Forget the Trump-Class Battleship: The Navy’s Iowa-Class Was Almost an ‘Aircraft Carrier’
Key Points and Summary – In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Navy thinkers repeatedly revisited a radical idea: convert Iowa-class battleships into ‘battlecarriers’ or interdiction/assault ships, adding a flight deck for STOVL aircraft and, in later …
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