USN Tillmans

The USN some how gets congress to pay for 2 Tillman IV-2 battleships in 1918 and they survive WNT and WW2. What happens to them post war will we see them have a service life like the Iowas or scrapped in the late 40's early 50's?
 
The USN some how gets congress to pay for 2 Tillman IV-2 battleships in 1918 and they survive WNT and WW2. What happens to them post war will we see them have a service life like the Iowas or scrapped in the late 40's early 50's?
My best case would be have them made into museum ships by 1938, so they don't get trashed in WWII.

15 x 18" guns would make them the heaviest ever, but then what would the IJN and RN have been building?

Tillman batttleships
 
You have just killed the WNT is what you did. The WNT was premised on only 1 ship, Hood, being bigger than the limit, and not enough bigger that a new 35,000 ton ship in 10 years won't be able to match her. You will not be able to develop a 35,000 ton ship to fight an 80,000 ton ship for the foreseeable future. Ergo the treaty is dead, and the butterflies start flying from there, Japan gets locked into an arms race she can't afford and goes broke just for a start
 
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