The Montana-class would have been the largest battleships in the United States military fleet, had they actually been built during World War 2. SlashGear Story by Jonathan H. Kantor ...

What You Need to Know: The Montana-class battleships, planned but never built, were intended to surpass the Iowa-class in size and firepower during World War II. With longer length, heavier ...

The Montana battleships were also much more heavily armored. They were to have sixteen inches’ steel armor at the belt, a third more than their predecessors.

In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy still expected to need huge, first rate battleships to fight the best that Japan and Germany had to offer. The North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa class ...

We'll call our notional battleship the USS Montana (BBGN-72). Besides Hawaii, Montana is the only of the 50 U.S. states never to have successfully bestowed its name upon a battleship, and the ...

In a shipyard in Newport News, Va., 10,000 shipbuilders are assembling the millions of pieces that will become the USS Montana. The components come from every state, but it's the items from ...

The commissioning committee for the nuclear attack submarine, the USS Montana is looking for ways to bring a Big Sky feel to the underwater vessel. Once complete, the USS Montana will be the first ...

Jun. 24—Montana's namesake attack sub will be commissioned at a Saturday ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. The USS Montana is the second warship to bear the state's name and is a ...

The Montana-class battleship plans differed from the Iowa-class in several notable ways, largely around the areas of offense and defense. While the Iowa class boasted nine 16-inch 50 cal. guns on ...