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While working on the USS Alaska, the book I was using as a reference stated regarding the Iowa-class modernization, "The British may yet regret scrapping the last and greatest of their battleships, HMS Vanguard." And I thought, "Hey..."

So here you go, a modernized HMS Vanguard.

This was a bit tougher than the Alaska, because the masts had to be changed, and the Vanguard had a much more comphrensive antiaircraft set (something like 68 40mm mounts). I removed all that, the seaplanes, and secondary batteries, in favor of modern 4.5-inch automatic single mounts and a whole lot of antimissile systems: Seawolf SAM batteries and Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS. Like the Iowas, it also mounts Harpoon and Tomahawk. And of course helicopters round out the modernization, and the 15-inch guns would be retained.

Unfortunately, the Vanguard, which entered service too late for WWII, was scrapped in the 1960s--the last in a centuries-old series of British battleships. One can dream, however...

Description
While working on the USS Alaska, the book I was using as a reference stated regarding the Iowa-class modernization, "The British may yet regret scrapping the last and greatest of their battleships, HMS Vanguard." And I thought, "Hey..."

So here you go, a modernized HMS Vanguard.

This was a bit tougher than the Alaska, because the masts had to be changed, and the Vanguard had a much more comphrensive antiaircraft set (something like 68 40mm mounts). I removed all that, the seaplanes, and secondary batteries, in favor of modern 4.5-inch automatic single mounts and a whole lot of antimissile systems: Seawolf SAM batteries and Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS. Like the Iowas, it also mounts Harpoon and Tomahawk. And of course helicopters round out the modernization, and the 15-inch guns would be retained.

Unfortunately, the Vanguard, which entered service too late for WWII, was scrapped in the 1960s--the last in a centuries-old series of British battleships. One can dream, however...