Talk:Iowa/@comment-26441734-20160222050604/@comment-76.167.67.201-20160222054814

Well, historically the Iowa-class was very fast, had the strongest AA-suite in a navy that had very good AA capability, etc, etc. Iowa-class could keep up with the Fast Carrier Task Forces which could go 30-something knots. That's fast. Not many battleships could keep up with that, and even fewer of those had the armament, protection, radar, gunfire control, speed, general advances of Iowa-class. Yamato, Nagato classes could not be really used regularly with the IJN's Carrier forces because the IJN CVs were just about as fast as the USN ones. The Japanese may have had different doctrines in carrier use, but they believed in fast fleet carriers.

Regarding the AA again, the US & British shared a little secret weapon for even better AA effectiveness. Proximity Fuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_Uy5hGazc

For the US Navy, Proximity Fuses were best in their various 5" guns which were found everywhere.