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Former battleships that were previously used as museum ships included USS Oregon (BB-3), SMS Tegetthoff, and SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand. Lambert, Andrew D, The Crimean War, British Grand Strategy Against Russia, 1853–56, Manchester University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7190-3564-3, pp. 60–61. Preston, Antony (Foreword) (1989). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II. London, UK: Random House Ltd. p.320. ISBN 978-1-85170-494-1.Armament: 9 × 16 in (406mm) (3x3), 20 × 5 in (127mm) (10x2), 80 × 40mm AA (20x4), 49 × 20mm AA (49x1) ( 1980s modification added 32 × Tomahawk and 16 × Harpoon missiles and 4 × Phalanx CIWS, and deleted 8 5-in guns and all other light anti-aircraft gun systems) Napoleon (90 guns), the first purpose-designed screw line of battleships", Steam, Steel and Shellfire, Conway's History of the Ship, p. 39.

United States of America 13"/35 (33cm) Mark 1 and Mark 2". NavWeaps.com. 15 August 2008 . Retrieved 27 December 2011. Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, USN Ret. The Naval Bombing Experiments: Bombing Operations (1959)". History.navy.mil. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010 . Retrieved January 31, 2009.

Polmar, Norman. The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet. 2001, Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-656-6. Iowa Class Battleship". Federation of American Scientists. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009 . Retrieved March 18, 2007. The "fleet in being" suggested battleships could simply by their existence tie down superior enemy resources. This in turn was believed to be able to tip the balance of a conflict even without a battle. This suggested even for inferior naval powers a battleship fleet could have important strategic effect. [ citation needed] Tactics [ edit ] Technical development continued rapidly through the dreadnought era, with steep changes in armament, armor and propulsion. Ten years after Dreadnought 's commissioning, much more powerful ships, the super-dreadnoughts, were being built. The Iowa-class battleships gained a new lease of life in the U.S. Navy as fire support ships. Radar and computer-controlled gunfire could be aimed with pinpoint accuracy to target. The U.S. recommissioned all four Iowa-class battleships for the Korean War and the New Jersey for the Vietnam War. These were primarily used for shore bombardment, New Jersey firing nearly 6,000 rounds of 16inch shells and over 14,000 rounds of 5inch projectiles during her tour on the gunline, [88] seven times more rounds against shore targets in Vietnam than she had fired in the Second World War. [89]