
The U.S. Navy’s very last class of battleships, the Iowa-class, was indeed historic, with many experts claiming they could be brought back out of retirement. But what was the reason these warships were so dangerous? Easy answer: those big 16-inch guns: During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) launched two of the […]
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