The Montana class capital ships.
 

The next generation. And under development until 1942
If you like old Dreads and Capitol ships.
You'll like this guy's "take" and what changes would have been made to the Montana class had WWII dragged on.

https://youtu.be/xjc--Ata5kk

absolutely amazing that they knew joe montana was going to be great before he was born and named the class after him

The ship captained by Kelsey Grammer in TNG’s Cause and Effect. Wasn’t that the USS Montana?

Close but not quite.

USS Bozeman

Guy got a whole state named after him.

Must be nice.

Toured the Iowa a few years ago.

I can't imagine a bigger battleship.

Is the Iowa the one at Pearl Harbor? Seems like I remember doing that tour.

Anaheim.

Everything about that area sucked IMO, but the Iowa, Queen Mary, and submarine there was VERY cool. The people were kind of fake, tried to present themselves as so cool, and it was very off-putting. I don't know if it's an LA thing but I just shook my head at the phoney ways people acted around there.

(My buddy wins the corn yield competition every year so I get to go on the prize trips with him.)

It’s in San Pedro

Thanks. We did drive a ways to get there.


The shipping on the drive there was mind-blowing. Massive ships with cargo containers as far as the eyes can see.

Good stuff. But that guy is kind of hard to listen to. Three and a half stars.

3.5 stars on a NFL playoff Saturday.
I'll take it.

Why does this dude use a carabiner as an accessory on his belt loop with nothing hanging from it. Trendsetter?

More disturbing is that stain below it

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I saw the Iowa fire her 16" guns back in '84. God that was awesome.

Toured the New Jersey. Was very cool!

Always heard that the guns on a battleship are so powerful they actually knock the ship back. Never seen one fire it’s guns, so not sure.

The Missouri is at Pearl. Toured her almost 12 years ago. It’s a really big boat with a lot of history.

There's a video somewhere showing either the Missouri or the Iowa firing all of her 16-inchers at the same time abeam, and you can see the wake of the ship bent behind her as the recoil shoved the ship sideways in the water.

My parents took me to see the USS North Carolina in the mid 60's. I am sure we toured it but what I remember is that evening they had a show. You parked and had a speaker like at a drive-in from those days. You heard the crew during a battle and they fired off the guns at various times. Very impressive to this 7 year old!

No, that's USS Missouri. Faces the USS Arizona. The Japanese surrendered on Missouri's deck, so...

No, they couldn't. Too much mass.

PacEx 1989
was on CVN 70.
It looked like the whole gd navy was in one place
awesome day.

I was on another ship around a mile away. Not close enough to feel it, but damn sure close enough to hear it. That shit was loud. Saw the fireball when the gun went off, heard the BOOM a few seconds later.

I experienced a lot of cool things during in Navy days that I didn't really appreciate at the time. This definitely wasn't one of those. I'd been in only a few months when I saw that, and never saw it again.

Being around the hub of activities going on during the construction of such ships had to be an awesome job.