To: Jeff Head
Time to modernize and bring back the Iowa-class battleships. This would be a relatively inexpensive and yet effective strengthening of the Pacific fleet.
To: GOP_Party_Animal
The Iowa's were fairly heavily modernized when they were reactivated back in the 1980's, including the addition of Harpoon and Tomahawk cruise missiles and CIWS defense systems. If they are teamed up with multiple AEGIS cruisers or destroyers for air defense and a frigate or two for anti-submarine protection, they would be a formidable combat platform.
179 posted on
03/07/2005 3:13:07 PM PST by
Stonewall Jackson
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