What You Need to Know About this Battleship: The Montana-class super battleships, designed as the largest and most powerful battleships ever for the U.S. Navy, were ultimately canceled in 1943.

Montana-class battleships would have featured different thicknesses of armor on different parts of the ship. The main belt would have sported 16.1" armor, while the standard bulkheads were 18 ...

In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy still expected to need huge, first rate battleships to fight the best that Japan and Germany had to offer. The North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa class ...

We'll call our notional battleship the USS Montana (BBGN-72). Besides Hawaii, Montana is the only of the 50 U.S. states never to have successfully bestowed its name upon a battleship, and the ...

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf ...

What You Need to Know About this Battleship: The Montana-class super battleships, designed as the largest and most powerful battleships ever for the U.S. Navy, were ultimately canceled in 1943.

The Montana-class would have been the largest battleships in the United States military fleet, had they actually been built during World War 2. SlashGear Story by Jonathan H. Kantor ...