You are like the F-14 Tomcat. This was the US Navy's primary air-superiority fighter jet for several decades, a workhorse that helped the US win the Cold War in the late 1980s.

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The Iowa class was the last "battleship" the US Navy commissioned, and the four ships of the class served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and finally were retired from the Navy in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. These ships were awesome, and several are now floating museums in different locations, with the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor (next to the Arizona memorial).

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