Modern IOWA battleship with helo hangar?

[scooter]

There's also this variation over at Shipbucket.com, which does away with the aft turret all together-

[Captain Canada]

I like that one. Especially with a Chinook on deck.

[Joe C-P]

That Shipbucket idea missed the secondaries - the 5" should have been replaced with more modern 5", which was planned for most of the full upgrades. And their arrangement looks like a Montana class.
And they oddly left the old 40mm and 20mm.  :roll eyes:

I've built the "FACES II" - it's about 1/800 scale.

For a hanger, one could consider a semi-suppressed space, like the Ulyanovsk DDs. There is a lift, while the hangar doesn't stick up the full height above the deck. That would cost less space below decks aft, especially if one used a scissors lift.

If you want to go further retro, in the 50s there was another proposal to add a deck with landing craft along the sides, so the ships could carry Marines and provide fire support as commando vessels. You'd have to find 50s-60s era helos for such an upgrade.