Talk:Iowa/@comment-26567469-20160520194546/@comment-25459687-20160522122337

as a follow-up to Archer's comment, the 12" guns on the Alaska class Large Cruisers, combined with the superheavy shells, had better performance than the 14" guns installed on the Standard battleships of the post-WWI era. The 12" guns were the most expensive ever made for the USN, since they basically had to build up the manufacturing capability from scratch, and then only made the one batch of guns.