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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Update on USS Iowa
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Date: 22 Apr 89 04:31:27 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>The Navy seems confident that they will be able to repair the turret
>without replacing it  (which would be, I'd think, a prohibitively
>costly process).

If I recall correctly, one reason for abandoning the original plan to
remove the #3 (aft) turrets and install armored hangars for Harriers
was the difficulty of finding a crane that could lift one of those turrets!
Each of the things weighs as much as a destroyer.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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