Scale:1/350
Length:31"

The Montana class battleships of the United States Navy were the proposed successors to the Iowa class, being slower, but larger, better armored, and carrying more guns. Five ships of the Montana class were approved for construction during World War II; however, changes in building priority during the War resulted in cancellation of the new battleship class in favor of the Essex-class aircraft carriers before any of the keels for the Montana class were laid. With an intended armament of twelve 16-inch guns and more anti-aircraft capability than the preceding Iowa-class battleships, the Montana class would have been the largest and the most heavily armed battleship class ever put to sea by the United States. The Montana class would have been the only battleship class commissioned by the U.S. to have come close to equaling the Empire of Japan's Yamato-class battleships on the basis of armor, armament, and tonnage.[7]