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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|''Iowa'' class
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!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:50 star jack.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
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| Class:
| ''Iowa''
|-
| Ordered:
| Fiscal year 1940
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| Completed and commissioned:
| ''Iowa'', ''New Jersey'', ''Missouri'', ''Wisconsin''
|-
| Cancelled:
| ''Illinois'', ''Kentucky''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
|-
| Displacement:
| 45,000 tons
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| Length:
| 887 feet
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| Beam:
| 108 feet 2 inches
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| Draft:
| 28.8 ft (8.8 m)
|-
| Speed:
| 33+ knots
|-
| Main battery:
| Nine 16"/50 guns in three triple turrets
|}
The '''''Iowa''-class''' was the final series of six [[battleship]]s constructed for the [[United States Navy]], beginning with authorization in 1940, and ending with the commissioning of the fourth vessel, USS ''Wisconsin'' in 1944. The final two vessels were cancelled and scrapped while in the yards before launching, due to the ending of [[World War II]], as well as the battleship's replacement as the apex warship by the [[aircraft carrier]].
The '''''Iowa''-class''' was the final series of six [[battleship]]s constructed for the [[United States Navy]], beginning with authorization in 1940, and ending with the commissioning of the fourth vessel, USS ''Wisconsin'' in 1944. The final two vessels were cancelled and scrapped while in the yards before launching, due to the ending of [[World War II]], as well as the battleship's replacement as the apex warship by the [[aircraft carrier]].
*Powerplant: 212,000 horsepower steam turbines, producing a 33 knot maximum speed
*Powerplant: 212,000 horsepower steam turbines, producing a 33 knot maximum speed
*Armament (Main Battery): Nine 16"/50 guns in three triple turrets
*Armament (Main Battery): Nine 16"/50 guns in three triple turrets
*Armament (Secondary Battery): Twenty 5"/38 guns in ten twin mountings (ten guns on each side of the ship).
*Armament (Secondary Battery): Twenty 5"/38 guns in ten twin mountings (ten guns on each side of the ship). During their configuation for service in the 1980's, four of these turrets would be replaced by Tomahawk cruise missiles in box cannisters. Supplemental defensive batteries consisted of four Phalanx close-in weapons systems.
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