Iowa Class Battleship

The Iowa Class is a type of American Battleship that appears in Call of Duty: The War in the Pacific, it is the strongest American unit available in the base game.

Performance
Much like the Iowa's Japanese equivalent, the Yamato, the Iowa is a sluggish and unmaneuverable ship. This is made up for however by the ships incredibly strong armor and enormous battery of both offensive and defensive guns. Attacks on the ship by surface ships are almost always futile, with the only ship capable of single handedly fighting this behemoth being the Yamato, although swarms of smaller Battleships can sometimes get the job done. Air attacks are equally pointless thanks to the enormous amount of flak the ship can throw into the air, the only air unit that has a chance of penetrating the ships defences is the MXY-7 Ohka, and even then it is still difficult to accomplish. The ship has a common weakness with all other large ships however, submarines, the ship by itself is defenseless against subs and without a proper escort could easily fall prey to one.

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