next step might be a 1994 VLS refit for BB-69 Maine on wich i'm still puzzling around
please don't go that way........ if you do though., take a look at that thread of djbattlestations, there are posted most of the objections and possibilities of such an ship.
Well, i'm not too sure if doing that myself either so "dont' worry", and anyway in case i'd do my best to not do anything blatantly silly.
btw, are you sure the aft superstructure can take those ABL's over there? seeing that at least one of them seems to have been placed on some overhanging deck or something.......
the ABL arrangement on the aft superstructure mirros that of the USS iowa (
PIC), only the foremost part of the front ABL is on an overhang (and yet beign supported by struts from below), the platform goes overhang on it's outer side too, but there are no launchers placed there; th main weights rest all on solid bulkheads and deck structures.