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 ...

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 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 ...