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End of an era.

Yeah but each ship of the class will be preserved !!!


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Only the Iowa is being converted into a museum. I think the article said somewhere that 2 of the ships will still be maintained to a level of "emergency readyness". Probably those two would be New Jersy and Wyoming. Missouri is such an important historical ship that I can't imagine them scrapping her or using her as a target ship.

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weren't the others alreay museums? I thought the iowa was the only one left in reserve.

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I remember two of them are supposed to be operational in 90(?) days......

Wyoming? I could have sworn the 4th ship was the Wisconsin. The Wyoming is currently an Ohio class boomer, and before that the name was used for BB-32.

But its good to see them preserving the Iowa. Always nice to be able to save them from the scappers or rusting away in a mothball fleet.

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Actually, all four are museum ships. All are however to be preserved in such a way that they can be brought back should the need arise.

Yeah, and pigs fly. The USN has spent the last 20 years quietly getting rid of the spares needed to run them. Most recently they sold off the remaining barrels last year.

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Missouri is completely "museumized" in that all sections, even the engine rooms and targeting centers, are open to the public. This is not necessarily the case for Wisconsin and New Jersey in that they still have important areas closed off. New Jersey is to be completely open sometime in the near future and the navy is starting to let go of the Wisconsin as they also begin to open her completely to the public. The navy did consider holding at most two Iowas in a state of near readiness incase a crisis came about, one of the several reasons that Iowa found herself in the mothball fleet in the first place . However, with the costs involved and the construction of ships like Zumwalt, the navy now has better alternatives and is finally relinquishing its historic jewels.