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Iowa-class Battleship
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- Iowa class BB Image A - Iowa class BB Image C -

Origin: (Real World)
United States of America

Games Featured In:
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion

Operators:
Aurelian navy
Erusian Navy
Estovakian Navy
Leasath Navy
Yuktobanian Navy

Notable Vessels:
Battleship Tanager of the Erusean 'Invincible' Aegir Fleet (AC04)
Battleship Upor of the Yuktobanian Navy (AC5)

Armament:
3 x 16-inch Turrets, with nine cannons total
multiple 5 inch (127 mm) / 38-Caliber Guns in a series of twin mounts
4 x Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems
16 x RGM-84 Harpoon Launch Tubes
32 x BGM-109 Tomahawk Missile Armored Box Launchers

Aircraft:
3 x Helicopters
8 x RQ-2 Pioneer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Overview:
The Iowa-class battleships were the biggest, the most powerful, and the last battleships built for the United States Navy. Four were built in the early 1940s for World War II. All were decommissioned, then recommissioned in the 1980s and decommissioned again in the 1990s. The Iowas were designed to be faster than Battleships before them, rely on a mixed force of fire power, and were made capable to sail the same speed as a Carrier Force.

Two more were laid down but were scrapped prior to completion. Built with cost as no object, "The Iowa-class fast battleships were arguably the ultimate capital ship in the evolution of the battleship." Yet even as these behemoths entered service, they were being eclipsed by aircraft carriers as the most important naval vessels.

The Iowa-class battleships improved upon the earlier South Dakota class with more powerful engines, longer-caliber guns giving greater range and an additional 200 feet (60 m) of length for improved sea keeping. The Iowas are widely considered to be amongst the most attractive battleships ever built, with a long, narrow, elegant bow and three powerful gun turrets. While excellent sea boats, the ships are quite wet forward due to the long bow. Like all American battleships of her generation, her armament was laid out in two turrets before the superstructure and one after ("2-A-1"), with the 5 inch dual-purpose secondaries (anti-ship and anti-aircraft) flanking the superstructure. They were relatively slender by battleship standards for their length, due to the necessity of building them to a Panamax configuration for transit through the Panama Canal. This made them difficult to armor, especially forward, near the #1 turret. The ships are actually two feet wider than what is accepted in the present day as a Panamax configuration, only allowing a single foot of clearance on either side of the hull. The follow-on Montana class battleships, if ever completed, would have been built to a post-Panamax design, being 12 feet beamier than the Iowa class.


Sources:
Ace Combat Series (In Game Data)
Answers.com

* Original Article by Garm 3

[Green Giant]

Amazin' pic of it firin' :

Yeah..... Look at the shock waves in the water from the concussion....

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

I don't remember the Iowa's ever carrying UAVs.

[JianDaoXiao]

What a...!!!
You alright DLR, and the Iowa is from USA, and the Pionner is from Rusia, so, USA buy sovietics things?

[Heinkel]

Pioneer's from either US or Israel IIRC

[JianDaoXiao]

anyway, the Iowa have pionners in there?

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

I've looked and looked and looked, I can find anywhere that states the Iowas carryed UAVs. I even found a website dedicated to battleships and says nothing about it carrying UAVs.

Here's the link to said site:http://www.battleship.org/html/Articles/Io.../Statistics.htm

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

That wouldn't count, they only deployed it from there because they needed to keep an eye on the Iraqi troops. It wasn't a normal weapon for the Iowa so it needs to be taken off or we need to add a whole lot of stuff to other articles.

[JakeHarlow]

What's the primary reason we don't use battleships anymore? I suppose there hasn't been a major navy-to-navy engagement in recent history, barring the incident involving Britain and Argentina...Plus, these battleships are probably very expensive to maintain and produce. So, I guess, if we're not using them, what's the point in throwing money down a useless, albeit, well-armed hole?

[Heinkel]

Image restored and edits made. Some comedian put an image of the XC-01 in the 'Image A' link

[Sky Captain]

I've see and been on the Battleship NewJesery in Camden NJ a few times

[Roaches]

I made this model not too long ago for Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2

[Tazuren]

I made this model not too long ago for Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2

Loks like the symbol on the flag of Emmeria.