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Originally Posted by Officerpuppy
During the Gulf War they used a BB as a giant artillery platform, but I guess it was too expensive to maintain so now it's a floating museum if I'm not mistaken.  |
Both the Missouri and Wisconsin were stationed off of Kuwait for gunfire support. In fact, the Missouri alone launched 28 Tomahawks and had a Silkworm missile land 700 meters in front of them after it was intercepted by a British AAW launched from a ship nearby. The Wisconsin served as the TLAM Strike Commander.
The cost of modernizing
Iowa and
Wisconsin is estimated to be somewhere around $500 million for reactivation and $1.5 billion for a full modernization program.
Have faith though...the 109th Congress has requested that options are in place to allow the remaining battleships to be in decent condition for a possible future reactivation.