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When reactivated for the final time in the 1980s the Iowa Class battleships had no real threat of surface to surface gun fire against other ships. However, their ability to strike at targets was augmented with the addition of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
To make the ships capable of carrying these updates changes to the ships were made. Four of the secondary dual purpose 5-inch gun mounts were removed. A missile deck was constructed to mount the armored box launchers for the tomahawks as well. These were also known as ABLs.


A 4,573-year-old neolithic wooden peat road near Nieuw-Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, excavated in the 1980s. The peat road was at least 800 metres long, and its construction has been precisely dated to the year 2,549 BC thanks to dendrochronology or tree-ring dating