Talk:Iowa/@comment-5946690-20160223155516/@comment-24332640-20160224063823

Montana-class was neither a predecessor nor a successor to Iowa. They were designed around the same time and were always meant to share the same guns, etc. In the end as the importance of carries became more evidence Montana-class was cancelled but orders for Iowa-class were retained because they were fast enough to keep up with carrier fleets.

Montana-class was not 'halfway' constructed either. Keels were never laid. It's true there was some equipment shared with Iowa-class but that was the intent from the beginning. You make it sound like they built the guns first and then were like, "oh well, guess we'll stick them on Iowa". Which is just not true.

But none of this has anything to do with the library quote which doesn't say a single word about Montana-class. Why are we talking about Montana-class?