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An interesting book: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_ ... an_Sailors

It describes a naval battle off the Philippines in which the Japanese attacked a US group of escort carriers (Taffy 3) defended only by a few DDs and DEs. One interesting part is the description of the fire control on the American ships. By that time, even the little DDs and DEs had fire control radar, and were able to close and score hits on Japanese cruisers & other ships. Eventually the US ships got pretty much blown away, but they managed to stall the Japanese until most of the CVEs were able to flee.

If I recall correctly, the fire control radar was built by Ford. It was all analog (no digital stuff back then) and even compensated for the curvature of the earth between shooter and target.

SO, I'd say the Iowa class battleships would have a very distinct advantage…
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