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Originally Posted by RN7
As a side note I don't know if it would now be possible to reactivate the Iowa Class battleships
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Why do they need to reactivated? Most of the weapons on the Lider Class Destroyer are missiles what are the big anti ships guns going to do? How much do think its going to cost to make all the ammo? Is there even a ship is the US Navy right now that can replenish a battleship at sea?
I would also like to point out that in 2013, Huntington Ingalls Industries revived the arsenal ship idea when it proposed a Flight II version of the LPD-17 hull with a variant carrying up to 288 VLS cells for the ballistic missile defense and precision strike missions and from 2002 to 2008, the U.S. Navy modified the four oldest Ohio-class submarines into cruise missile submarines. The conversion was achieved by installing vertical launching systems (VLS) in a multiple all-up-round canister (MAC) configuration in 22 of the 24 missile tubes, replacing one Trident missile with 7 smaller Tomahawk cruise missiles. The 2 remaining tubes were converted to lockout chambers for use by special forces personnel. This gave each converted submarine the capability to carry up to 154 Tomahawks. The large diameter tubes can also be modified to carry and launch other payloads, such as UAVs or UUVs.
I also doubt weather Russia will actually build all 12 planed Lider Class.