Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battleships? - SCB 19 and the Incomplete Iowa class" video.

  1. Yeah. They had all this stuff left over from WWII and were wondering what they could do with it. IIRC ... one thing they did was experiment with missile launchers on various ships including Submarines and Escort Carriers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSM-N-8_Regulus And Kentucky was considered as a Missile Battleship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kentucky_(BB-66)#Guided_missile_battleship A lot of the benefit of such projects could be summed up as "They learned a lot ..." . .
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