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International relations professor Dr. Andrew Latham examines the legacy of the canceled Montana-class battleship. Scrapped in 1943 when it no longer fit the realities...
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International relations professor Dr. Andrew Latham examines the legacy of the canceled Montana-class battleship. Scrapped in 1943 when it no longer fit the realities...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a national security expert, evaluates the speculative role of the Montana-class super battleship in Operation Epic...
Summary and Key Points: The Montana-class was designed as the final and most powerful expression of U.S. battleship thinking: heavier armor, greater survivability, and...
The Montana-class battleships sit at the center of a lasting naval “what-if”: a larger successor to the Iowa class with heavier armor, a bigger...
Synopsis: The Montana-class was conceived in 1940 as America’s ultimate battleship—bigger, heavier armored, and more heavily armed than the Iowa class. -Authorized under the...
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships were the greatest gun platforms ever to sail, but on paper their planned successors—the Montana-class—were even...
Key Points and Summary – America nearly built a battleship bigger than Iowa: the Montana-class. -Authorized during World War II, it was designed for...
Key Points and Summary – The Montana-class battleships were meant to be the apex of US naval gunpower: 60,000-ton giants with twelve 16-inch guns,...
Key Takeaways – The Montana-class was meant to be the U.S. Navy’s ultimate battleship: over 70,000 tons full load, twelve 16-inch/50 guns in four...
Key Points and Summary – The Montana-class was meant to be the U.S. Navy’s ultimate battleship: larger than the Iowa-class, slower but far better...