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Too bad the Montana was never built.
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Note that the picture states "two largest battleships," not the most powerful. Yamato and Musashi outgunned both of these.
Vanguard, the last Battleship to be completed in history, was supposed to be a 16" gun ship, but it wasn't. England had already determined that the age of the Dreadnought was done, so they installed 14" guns from a retired ship. I can't recall which it was at this moment. Vanguard had a very short life.
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70-0449 C-5A 21st AS, 60th AMW, Travis AFB
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The 16" guns of Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney. The heaviest broadside mounted by any British battleship and the only British battleship guns to see service in triple turrets.
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A 381 mm gun (built for a never completed Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship in 1914) is moved up a hill near Genoa, to be placed in a new coastal defense battery built after Operation Grog, 1942
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The battlecruiser HMS Hood at Freemantle, Australia, 27 February 1924
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The USS Alabama looking majestic as she relaxes in retirement.
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USS Maryland (BB-46) fires her 16 inch guns.
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HMS Duke of York, a King George V-class battleship. She was the last British battleship to engage an enemy capital ship, on an account of her action with Scharnhorst on 26 December 1943
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) entering Golden Gate, in September 1945. Note homeward bound pennant.
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HMS Ark Royal with a Fairey Swordfish aircraft taking off as another approaches from astern circa 1939
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US Navy assault ship USS America (LHA-6) paying visit to Valparaíso on June of 2009 during her maiden and shake down trip from Pascagoula to San Diego
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) in 1899, while the ship was making 16.82 knots on trials off the U.S. East Coast. Note that her broadside battery of five-inch guns had not yet been installed
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When I was at Barksdale AFB they had one at the air show one year. What a monster it is, both the nose and tail was open.
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I sat directly under the flight path as one of those monsters flew over en route to Willow Grove, looked like it was going slow enough to fall out of the ski.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth looking ethereal in the mist this morning, seen from HMS Tamar
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USS Des Moines as seen off Boston, 1951. One of the last heavy cruisers ever built, she was armed with automatic shell loading guns
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USS Nicholas, underway, during Sea Trials, May 28, 1942 Official USN photo 19-N-36875
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USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers USS Mississippi (CGN-40) and USS Texas (CGN-39), and the guided missile cruiser USS Biddle (CG-34), underway in the Mediterranean Sea, August 1981
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HMS Revenge, Ramillies, Royal Sovereign, and Resolution, taken from sister HMS Royal Oak, circa 1930.
