Talk:Iowa/@comment-98.115.168.13-20160314230335/@comment-17703786-20160319114450

^ The game is explicitly not set in the 1940's if you take the collective evidence from all of the shipgirl's lines, for instance Imuya messing around with a smartphone, or Yuubari knowing about late-night anime, or ships mentioning modern weaponry like Hyuuga mentioning VLS (Vertical Launch System), and of course Iowa in this very page mentioning the Harpoon missile.

Then of course you have the fact that Kancolle isn't really a game that sticks too closely to historical accuracy - see for example the various hypothetical Kai Ni's implemented, like Shoukaku and Zuikaku Kai Ni.