The Montana-class super battleships represent one of the greatest “what-ifs” in US naval history. These behemoths were authorized as part of the 1940 “Two Ocean Navy” program, intended to bolster ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Kentucky (BB-66), initially planned as a Montana-class battleship, was reordered as an Iowa-class vessel in 1940 to prioritize speed and adaptability to carrier... What ...

The interwar system of naval treaties allowed the United States to restart battleship construction in the late 1930s. The first designs (the North Carolina and South Dakota classes) complied with the ...