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Old 11-17-2017, 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by tbzep
It would be cool to have the USS Iowa go back into service yet again as a launch platform. Equatorial launches would be a breeze and they wouldn't need to lease or buy land on foreign soil. That would be one heck of an expensive refit and recommission, though. Yes, I'm looking for any excuse to see a real battleship sail again.
What a unique Crowdfunding project that would be! :-) Actually, such a venture could be used to make her a unique traveling, yet working, museum, which could be toured at ports of call. The 16" launching guns were quite long, having barrel extensions (one of the original HARP guns--which fired Martlet sounding rocket/projectiles into space--is still where it was, on Barbados), but it could be mounted across or alongside (when stowed for transport) her upper structures without "ruining the historicity" of the vessel by requiring removal of her other fittings.
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