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|image= [[Image:USS South Dakota (BB-57) at Scapa Flow, 1943.jpg|300px]] ...Battleship armament: 16"/45 caliber guns aboard the battleship [[USS South Dakota (BB-57)]].

|caption=The {{Sclass|Iowa|battleship}} {{USS|Iowa|BB-61|6}} fires a full [[broadside]] of her 16"/50 Mark 7 guns |design_date= 1939

...nd larger guns, up to battleships such as the [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship|USS ''Iowa'']]. After the 1950s, GCFSs were integrated with missile [[fire- ...inated gunfire from a formation of ships at a single target was a focus of battleship fleet operations. An officer on the flagship would signal target informati