Congress approved the construction of five Montana-class battleships, which would have resulted in the commissioning of the USS Montana (BB-67), USS Ohio (BB-68, USS Maine (BB-69), ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: The Montana-class battleships, authorized in 1941 but never built, were intended to be the last of their kind for the U.S. Navy.These massive ships would have been larger ...

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 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 ...