Originally Posted by brandon_tortle

what the us navy needs is the ddx class battleship with a power plant strong enough to power several rail gun turrents would greatly reduce the need for aircraft carriers. someone mentioned that the iowa class battle ships have only fixed guns and no aircraft. that is untrue the iowa class lost its broadside turrets for tomahawk missle turrets the iowa class battleship also lost its manned prop plane they used to cat apult from the rear main turret . the mannned plane was replaced with a smaller remote controlled plane. both of these planes served the same pupose on the battleship target aquistion and veryify that target was destroyed.the ddx will use sattelites for targetting