Is is possible to build Montana class battleships today and remake the blueprints to meet modern-day warfare?

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I mean true the iowa's are better to replace them since they are already built and true a aircraft carrier is nice but a CV can only hold tranittory plans not hold, and a destroyer can't hold the sea for long since you will get speedboats bombing it immidiately and sinking the damn thing. And most people these days don't realize the potential even an iowa class battleship has today so they're going to get thrown into the garbage (damn fools) and if it is true that aircraft carriers are supposed to be the best ships and we basically got no use for cruisers or destroyers then we should only have subs and CV's but a battleship is better and stronger than a cruiser or any destroyer and usually more useful than a carrier when the battleship has the enemy within thier main gun range, but not only that but the main guns of battleships today can be modernized and something most people cannot see is modernization of battleships becayse they are blinded by the aircraft carrier.

since aircraft carriers cost hundreds of millions every year to replace: planes, missiles, amount of foods/needs for the manpower concerning the carrier, don't get me wrong that the carrier is not an essential asset, but it is not the best for some scenario's and sometimes a scenario is out od a destroyer's range so it has to fire 2 million dollar tomahawks, and sometimes the captain has his justification about firing 2 million dollars at a third world country which has nothing more then costing 100,000 at max and usually most things only costs hundreds of dollars, and then if the captain has his justifications he calls a carrier and the carrier sends out a squadron but then they are on the lookout for stingers and other jets and usually end up shooting 100,000+ missiles at a target which may cost equal or less than the missile and thats where the battleship comes in to help solve that problem.

And true that it is that they are building a DD(X) a CG(X) and a LCS (which i think the LCS was cancelled or one of them was) but they all fire 50,000 dollar missiles that only deal 19lbs of explosive force which it really weak, something a kid in middle school or high school could do after he goes to the fireworks store and pays 50$ for and bundles them all together for a explosion. once again this is where projectiles should never get replaced by missiles, and if even so should any ship today get hit by a EMP (electro magnetic pulse) and immobilize the damn thing, whose going continue out the mission? once again this is where analog should never get completely replaced by computers since they have problems and flaws of thier own.

Answer 1

The USS Montana was to be (BB-67). Plans were apporved in 1941 but the building program was cancelled in 1943.

Montana Class Battleship (BB-67 through BB-71)
blueprints are at these liniks: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s-file/s511-11.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s-file/s511-12.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s-file/s511-13.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s-file/s511-21.jpg

Characteristics of the Montana class design included:
1) Displacement: 60,500 tons (standard); 70,965 tons (full load)
2) Dimensions: 921' 3" (length overall); 121' 2" (maximum beam)
3) Powerplant: 172,000 horsepower steam turbines, producing a 28 knot maximum speed
4) Armament (Main Battery): Twelve 16"/50 guns in four triple turrets
5) Armament (Secondary Battery): Twenty 5"/54 guns in ten twin mountings (ten guns on each side of the ship)
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Answer 2

Montana Class Battleship

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Is is possible to build Montana class battleships today and remake the blueprints to meet modern-day warfare?

Answer 4

Battleships were the "heavy artillery" of the Navy. In their day, they were the most powerful thing afloat. They'd pull up along side a disputed piece of real estate and throw Volkwwagen's at the enemy until they realized that their bunkers wouldn't stand that kind of punishment. Battleships were also big. They established a Navy presence that nobody could miss nor deny.

While the battleship is still an impressive piece of hardware, it's no longer "the best" nor "the biggest."

Not too many ships built these days even have guns. Everything's missiles. I once had an opportunity to watch a display of Navy power. An old hulk was towed offshore as the target. An old ship still equipped with guns popped away at it... even hit it quite a bit. The a smaller, faster, more maneuverable ship zipped in, fired one missile at the hulk and blew it out of the water. Yet that's not the "biggest" nor the "best."

Today the flag ship of the Navy is the aircraft carrier. These ships don't need missiles... though they have them. Carriers have an air force. They have fighters to protect, and attack aircraft that can take the war back to any enemy stupid enough to start one. They even have their own Marine detachments. That's the king of the surface Navy.

But somewhere in the world, sneaking around underwater, are the subs. They don't have planes. Thy don't need them. They have a number of missile silos, each equipped with more firepower than is necessary to blow an enemy away... or at least, back to the stone age.

Could battleships be redesigned to fire missiles? Sure. Could stealth technology be incorporated in those designs? Sure. Heck, they could even be made nuclear. But why? Other ships have taken over their jobs... and are doing them better.

Answer 5

Possible, yes... improbable: definitely.

It would make MORE sense to haul the Iowa and New Jersey out of mothballs and retrofit THEM. Convert them to Gas-turbine or nuclear power, lose the aft turret and replace it with a VLS system, add hangars to the aft-deck, and do all the automation and systems upgrades.

HOWEVER: In response, the Navy has pointed to the cost of reactivating the two Iowa class battleships to their decommissioned capability. The Navy estimates costs in excess of $500 million, but this does not include an additional $110 million needed to replenish gunpowder for the 16-inch guns because a recent survey found the powder to be unsafe.

Answer 6

The unfortunate situation is that even though battleships were beautiful bastions of power back in their day, even a modernized battleship would be nothing more than a giant beacon calling for enemy aircraft and saying "bomb me! bomb me!"

The king of the seas is the air craft carrier now. Either way, the battleship isn't properly equipped or doctrinally in keeping with the idea of carrier escort duty... which is the only way it would be safe in the first place. Cruisers and tin cans are the best suited to protect our carriers. Don't get me wrong, they're not invincible. Launch 100 cruise missiles at one fleet and you're going to see a hulk of a carrier sinking, but they stand 2000% better chances than a battleship sailing by herself.

Submersible aircraft carriers... ah, my vision for the future...

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Answer 8

Yes with a update of the hull design but also maintaining armor it's a deal platform for 3 to 4 rail guns

Answer 9

Uss Montana

Answer 10

Of course it is.

The question is, do we want to do that? Does a newly-built Montana-class meet the needs of the Fleet? Is there the will in Congress to appropriate the money to build them? Will the airdales of the Fleet and the Air Farce let the money for them be appropriated without a huge squealing fight?