All of the Iowa's that were completed did a bit more than that from what recall.bf109 emil wrote:which modern battleships? the IOWA's that where completed to late to play a part in the war other then shelling of static targets?Yamato posessed nothing that all modern US Battleships didn't already have. Lastly, following the war, all US battleships except the Iowa's went into mothballs,
But not immediatly post war. The first mothballing didn't occur until the 50's from what I remember.and likewise claiming the Iowa's where not mothballed is an error as the Iowa, New Jersey and Wisconsin where all decommissioned and mothballed after WW2!
It's not just the technology that deterimes the fuel consumption. I'm not sure how much worse they were than the SoDak's but given their weight assuredly they were worse. For the impact of this I susgest you look at:can you please source where this info came from...more uneconomical then the South Dakota class battleship propulsion using the exact same steam turbine technology?Yamato was a fuel guzzling pig and a more uneconomical steaming ship you'd likely never see.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/guadoil1.htm
The US fast BBs traveled as part of carrier task forces on a regular basis.no, and neither was any US Battleship until the completion of the Iowa class, and seldom traveled as part of a carrier task force, but her speed of 27 knots matched US Battleships at the time which had a similar top speedShe also wasn't fast enough to keep up with US Carrier task forces.