Military Warship

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After the Second World War, battleships gradually faded out of the historical stage. The vast majority of battleships were retired and disintegrated, and some were preserved as museums. In the early 1980s, the United States modernized the Iowa class battleship: the speed was increased to 35 knots, three triple 406mm main guns were retained, four double 127mm auxiliary guns were removed, eight quadruple Tomahawk cruise missile launchers, four quadruple whaling fork missile launchers, four six tube 20mm dense array short-range defense weapon systems and three helicopters were installed, It is equipped with electronic system and air search radar. After returning to service, the ship has formed four marine assault groups with battleships as the core to independently carry out maritime operations, support landing and attack onshore targets, or cooperate with aircraft carrier formation operations. Two of them participated in the Gulf War in 1991, attacked Iraqi targets with "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, and bombarded Iraqi positions with 406mm artillery, which played an important role