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=== Aircraft (1943β69) === When they were commissioned during World War II, the ''Iowa''-class battleships came equipped with two [[aircraft catapult]]s designed to launch [[floatplane]]s. Initially, the ''Iowa''s carried the [[Vought OS2U Kingfisher]]<ref name="Stillwell 62.1">Stillwell, p. 296.{{Incomplete short citation|date=November 2020}}<!--Ambiguous, there are two Stillwells (1986, 1996) cited in article--></ref> and [[Curtiss SC Seahawk]],<ref name="Stillwell 62.1" />{{sfn|Bridgeman|1946|pp=221β22}} both of which were employed to spot for the battleship's main gun batteries β and, in a secondary capacity, perform search-and-rescue missions. By the time of the Korean War, helicopters had replaced floatplanes and the [[Sikorsky H-5|Sikorsky HO3S-1]] helicopter was employed.<ref name="Stillwell 62.1" /> ''New Jersey'' made use of the [[Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH]] drone for her Vietnam War deployment in 1968β69.{{sfn|Polmar|2001|p=127}}
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