[ken5050]

The seaplane lifts at the stern tell everything...designed for scouting purposes....it shows that battleship design at the start of the war had not yet embraced the idea of a combined strike force....

Since the late 60's the US has not had a steel mill that can produce armor plating of sufficient thickness to build a BB

[glorgau]

> Since the late 60’s the US has not had a steel mill that can produce armor plating of sufficient thickness to build a BB

These days, I suspect that homogeneous slabs of steel wouldn’t be used as the armor. More likely it would be something like that used on M1 tanks.

[Last Dakotan]

Since the late 60's the US has not had a steel mill that can produce armor plating of sufficient thickness to build a BB

Given current trends, in a few more years the US won't have a steel mill.