The engines on the Iowa class are the same geared turbines that they were built with back in the 1940s. The boilers were modified to burn NDF.
The major part of the rebuild was to modified their armament, electronics, air conditioning plants as well as to install some automated systems in an effort to reduce their crew requirements.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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