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Good news they also have Tomahawks!

As part of their modernization in the 1980s, each of the Iowas received a complement of eight quad-cell Armored Box Launchers and four “shock hardened” Mk 141 quad-cell launchers. The former was used by the battleships to carry and fire the BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) for use against enemy targets on land, while the latter system enabled the ships to carry a complement of RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles for use against enemy ships. With an estimated range of 675 to 1,500 nautical miles (1,250 to 2,778 km; 777 to 1,726 mi)[103] for the Tomahawks and 64.5 to 85.5 nautical miles (119.5 to 158.3 km; 74.2 to 98.4 mi)[103] for the Harpoons, these two missile systems displaced the 16-inch guns and their maximum range of 42,345 yards (38.7 km; 20.9 nmi)[36] to become the longest-ranged weapons on the battleships during the 1980s; the ships’ complement of 32 Tomahawk missiles was the largest until the Mk 41 VLS-equipped Ticonderoga-class cruisers entered service.

A 1980s modernization lead to the Iowa class actually being equipped with some modern toys too

Sensors

• Mark 13 fire control radar
• Mark 25 fire control radar
• AN/SPS-49
• AN/SPS-67

Electronic Warfare and Decoys

• AN/SLQ-32(V)3 electronic warfare system
• AN/SLQ-25 Nixie acoustic decoy
• Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets

Armament

• 9 × 16 in/50 cal guns (3 Mounts x3)
• 12 × 5 in/38 cal guns (6 Mounts x2)
• 32 × BGM-109 Tomahawk launchers (8 Launchers x4)
• 16 × RGM-84 Harpoon launchers (4 Mounts x4)
• 4 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS

and 5 UAVs

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship

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Magic Missile has a max range of 120 ft

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