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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (7 children)

A 1980s modernization lead to the Iowa class actually being equipped with some modern toys too

Sensors

  • Mark 13 fire control radar
  • Mark 25 fire control radar
  • AN/SPS-49
  • AN/SPS-67

Electronic Warfare and Decoys

  • AN/SLQ-32(V)3 electronic warfare system
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie acoustic decoy
  • Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets

Armament

  • 9 × 16 in/50 cal guns (3 Mounts x3)
  • 12 × 5 in/38 cal guns (6 Mounts x2)
  • 32 × BGM-109 Tomahawk launchers (8 Launchers x4)
  • 16 × RGM-84 Harpoon launchers (4 Mounts x4)
  • 4 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS

and 5 UAVs

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Yes, very nice, but hear me out: What if all that but also railguns?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Railgun tech isn't there yet, the bottleneck is currently what's bottlenecking a lot of higher tech, and that bottleneck is energy generation, storage, and consumption, so that's why we don't see more railgun and laser based tech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Gatling railgun, only 1/6 the barrel wear per shot.

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