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FMJRA 2.0: The Machineries Of Joy

Posted on | February 6, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Machineries Of Joy

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This is an artist’s concept of the USS Montana (BB-67), who you saw as a shipgirl earlier this week. Essentially a “stretch” version of the Iowa class with an extra triple 16″ turret and additional 5″/38 dual purpose guns, the Montana and her sisters were planned to mob the bigger, heavier Yamato-class superdreadnoughts in hot four or six-on-one action…but then it turned out it was easier and cheaper to send the IJN to Davy Jones’ Locker with dive bombers and torpedoes from submarines, so the Montanas were shelved even before their keels were laid. The freed-up shipyard space went towards Essex-class carriers, and the Montana joined the HMS Lion, Sovietskii Soyuz, and Friedrich der Grosse* in the shadowland of ships that were planned but never built.
SOTD is from Klaus Schulze’s La Vie Electronique Vol.4.
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