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 displacement, and more 16-inch ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Construction of a USS Montana battleship in the early part of the 20th Century was canceled in 1922 owing to the Washington Naval Limitations Treaty, according to the Navy.