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Nevada class battleship
The Nevada class battleships carried the United States Navy's first triple gun turrets, a feature that would be seen in all but one of its future battleship designs (the Colorado class would be the last to carry twin turrets, armed with dual-mounted 16" guns). Even more significantly, they introduced the so-called "all or nothing" armor scheme, in which protection of vital areas was optimized against heavy caliber guns, leaving other parts of the ship essentially unprotected.
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