That's not significantly bigger than contemporary battleships, right? [edit] I dug a bit; the Japanese forces had 2 similarly sized battleships (indeed this w

That's not significantly bigger than contemporary battleships, right? [edit] I dug a bit; the Japanese forces had 2 similarly sized battleships (indeed this was initially planned as a third). The Iowa class displaced about 55kt, and while the Russians started 3 ships of larger displacement, they were never completed.