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America's Lethal Iowa-Class Battleship vs. Russia's Battlecruiser: Who Wins?

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USS Iowa fires a full broadside during a target exercise. Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy

It would have been a battle for the ages.

Kyle Mizokami

It’s 1988. World War Three has begun, with the armies of the Soviet Union and the rest of the Warsaw Pact pouring over the Inter-German Border. Their destination: the Rhine River and beyond, dealing NATO a knockout blow that will end the war.

Meanwhile at sea, an equally titanic battle is about to take place. A Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser, attempting to intercept a U.S. Navy carrier battle group, is intercepted by the battleship USS Iowa. The biggest ship-against-ship battle since the World War Two is about to begin. Who wins?


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