Bismarck: Battle of the Denmark Strait 1941 

I know. So happy. Thank You Baz.

This is modern war

anyone else who does modern battles around I should check out?

Montemayor

perfection is possible

no kidding

She became a trophy of war (like the IJN Nagato) that the US took. Indeed a very impressive service history that Prinz took up.

They weren’t “direct hits.”

Its the truth but prinz Eugene is a he

@@Usa____government___8 Ships are always regarded as female even if they sometimes have male names. That is, the Germans did actually make an exception during world war 2 but only for Bismarck and Tirpitz, not for the smaller ships.

Dominate Gene well it does exist but the game is shit

@@radiationstudios5533 I play World of Warships and Warplanes. Both are relatively cool.

stevemc 01 WoWs I play too, but WoWp isn’t that good. I would pick WT over WoWp.

KanColle/Azure Lane: Konnichwa!

No they might actually be great historical games.

It goes along a coast of Greenland, and greenland is a part of denmark kingdom

Both iceland and Greenland was part of Denmark. So its called Denmark straight

This is true. I always had assumed that it was next to Denmark proper but you are correct. I wish it was called the Greenland strait

@@GeassEnabler yes i wish too. Denmark were an colonial power too. They were the first to visit north America

@@danishkfd The Danes also had colonies in West Indians too until they sold their islands to the USA. Those islands are now called the US Virgin Islands.

not as retarded to start a war with russia and the us

Yeah I especially love the fact they changed the font and made the map a bit darker. Baz Battle’s design has always looked great tbh.

I like everything

Personally, whenever Baz uploads I always think it has the best style- but then they keep getting better!

Delta REPUBLIC COMMANDO What up 38

V. Athanasiou Hey πάλι σε βρήκα σε βίντεο

+Dat History lad Είμαι πανταχού παρών...

V. Athanasiou λολ σε βρίσκω και στο great war channel

Yess

V. Athanasiou I have seen your profile pic somewhere... The great war?

Fredrik Overrated warship.....KGVs were better.

Paul Salmon He is singing lyrics of a new song called Bismarck by sabaton

@@paulsalmon5928 So much better they got bitched by the so called terrible Japanese Bombers together with the best Antu aircraft ship in the royal navy😭😭

@Steve, because Bismarck’s AA was *so* impressive that it couldn’t even handle obsolete torpedo bombers... The Second World War showed that all battleships from all nations were vulnerable to aircraft in excruciating detail. To say one is worse than the other due to being vulnerable is foolish since all ships of the type are vulnerable.

@@crgkevin6542 I dont think that's entirely correct. The AA CAPABILITYs of the bsimarck was strong but the swordfish were so lightweight that the bullets flew right through the pllanes withoit detonating. This was crutial and allow alot of torpedoe hits

same

I literally went "BRAP! BRAAAAAP!"

I went waaaaaaaa

Oskar Novotny When I saw video "Noooo! This will ruin channel! They were doing great why change the stuff??" After watching "When is next ww2 video" :D

didnt expect you here and yeah im 2 years late

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one I know I’m also two years ate

it's the naval guy

Nice one bok

Rlly?

That would have been epic for sure. It's surprising that virtually none of the titan battleships and dreadnoughts really ever slugged it out with each other

@@TheBamaChad-W4CHD There were many potential encounters but the Germans constantly broke contact and the British ships were not able/willing to pursue as they were on convoy escort.

That might have changed history in favor of the germans. At full force and its peaki doubt the british nave could have handled such a force.

@@weareworkingonit The full force of the Royal Navy would have had very little trouble with such a force actually. The problem for the RN was always that it had to spread itself so thinly. Especially when hunting for ships that had broken out into the Atlantic. but in an "all of us vs all of them scenario the RN always had a fairly large numerical advantage over the Kriegsmarine. And as the battle of Taranto and the surface war in Pacific theatre would later show, the RN aircraft carriers would likely have been devastating in a heavy hitters fight.

@@alexlyster3459 Would they have pulled back there navy towards europe if the germans had a larger force on the atlantic?

You'll be a fan now!

How can anyone not be a fan of huge warships battling it out.

how can you not be a fan of the battleship Bismarck

they are fighting over 12 miles dude, there is no human aspect to this, its too mechanical and robotic to one, there is also the familiarity bias as well. nvm i just watched the video, its fucking amazing

Just read up about the battle of Jutland or naval Guadalcanal if you think naval battles are not personal enough.

Prity sure Baz has made the followup to Bismarks sinking already. Also show her Montemayor, hes great for the Pacific naval war.

Feruz Tursunov agreed I was like.. OK OK I'll install that shit if you let me see the fucking chase!!!

I literally thought after the video: "I wonder if you can sail the Bismarck in World of Warships".

the answer is, yes you can.

Feruz Tursunov Almost as well placed as the Bismark's shell in the Hood's magazine.

The game is the best warship game in the world today as well.

As long as there's a WW1 or WW2 game to sponsor, I'm sure he'll do it.

Only if they're not as boring as this video. A rare miss for Baz.

Chris Dynamo well if you think this is boring this is basically ALL NAVEL BATTLES

I'm seeing more comments in support of sticking to medieval/antiquity battles, but this was a nice one nonetheless.

Skullthrone1 that wasn’t a question

Didn't notice that at first, it's great!

RIP

May he rest in Peace.. But i truly think with todays society as evidence UK and US fought the wrong enemy..So many good white men died for nothing

yeah Russia was the real enemy and muslims.

Same Steve both of my grandfathers fought and would turn over in their graves if he knew the outcome ..

Steve Hansson “Fought the wrong enemy” “so many good white men died for nothing” Oh boi, here we go again....

Techpriest What's your point? They had a lot of U-boats which were undetectable. And when they tried to raid commerce with surface ships the royal navy hunter them down and sank them.

Wanderer628 1. They had very few U-boats to conduct major operations. Wolf packs were few and far between to be effective. Admiral Doenitz said that. 2. U-boats are very much detectable. And if spotted from the air...good luck. U-boat captains could not fart without being detected by sonars and other equipment. 3. Trying to squeeze raiding sortie trough British land, sea and air defences (and their allies) is like threading the needle with a 5cm thick rope. 4. Avoiding engagement was order of the day. Unless you like 5 on 1 odds. When cornered to a fight they were able to put up a serious fight (sinking the Hood, Barham, Ark Royal, Audacity, Avenger, Courageous, Glorious, numerous destroyers...) That is my point. Fight against odds.

Wanderer628 no actually you are wrong. Britain had a better navy then Germany. So he is right it was a very good move by germans.

+Techpriest The Germankriegsmarine service fleet kinda lost her purpose after they've lost a significant portion of their destroyer fleet during Weserübung: e.g. almost half of their destroyer and heavy / light cruiser fleet in service.

Techpriest Navy war in WW2 took a lot of twists, U-boats start sinking ships, Royal Navy finds a way to detect them, U-boats builds a wolf pack, Royal Navy sends large fleets of destroyers with upgraded sensors, and Nazi build more U-boats.. Nazies really had a good advantage on the Atlantic but Hitler was never interested in sea warfare and he took minimum care of what was going on there. If they built more submarines and Brits didn't break the enigma then this war would have taken a different turn where Britain would surrender due to starvation.

Napoleon I Bonaparte Who would win? One of the biggest and best battleships in the world Or Another one of the biggest and best battleships in the world

I doubt a single torpedo can sink a battleship. iirc musashi took a dozen or two before sinking

Research on the wreck of the Bismarck proved it was probably sunk by scuttling charges. Plus I doubt a single torpedo (especially a british one, they aren't as strong as say a Type 93) could cause enough damage The Bismarck was a big BB (though rather small compared to the Yamato-class cuties), but wasn't that good. The turtleback armour had it's flaw and the rudder design with two panels is rather fragile. Coupled with poor AA and gun aiming systems, the best part of the ship are the speed and the secondary batteries

Let me see... Questions like these often depends on the enviroments, or the effects of each side. But i'm gonna do it like this: Considering there are numerous ways to stop flooding on mordern day warships, I would say the Battleship. If the torpedo hit a boiler room ,and it was flooding, it would probably be sealed off from the rest of the ship. and therefor no chances of continuous flooding throughout the ship, causing it to float, hence survive.

Most battleships of WW1 and WW2 era had some form of armour designed to protect against torpedo attacks. It was always a compromise between protection versus weight and bulk but it could usually mitigate if not completely protect against torpedoes. (It didn't normally extend to cover the bow or stern)

no, no, no we need some desert fox action =P

RFN Kami Oh yes! Rommel was without a doubt the finest general in WW2, no question!

Amanda Suttner I agree! Rommel was a better military commander then Hitler.

Uuh, dude, even a 4 years old child would make a better commander than Hitler. :D

@Amanda Suttner Ever heard of Manstein? Model? Guderian?

Nah, its called a he because the Lindemann decided a ship this powerful couldnt possibly be female

Every ship in the German navy was called he, not just Bismarck.

hMM Then why was Yamato SHE?

JordZz Gaming Different navy, as far as I'm aware, only the German navy referred to their ships as he with everyone else referring to their ships as she. Something to do with masculinity was the reason that Germany called their ships he, possibly because Germany is called Deutschland which translates to fatherland in English so they referred to their ships as he as a result. The Royal Navy and US navy refer to their ships as she and the Japanese navy was actually based on the Royal Navy pre WW1 as they bought the Kongo from Britain and built her sister ships under license in Japan. Most navies are based on the Royal Navy as the Royal Navy is the most successful navy in the world and ruled the waves for over 200 years until 1943-1944 when America took over. Therefore most navies including America probably copied Britains navy style just as South American navies copied the Royal Navy, the south American armies copied Prussia/Germany in organisation and dress style. Chile and Peru are a good example of this. This can be seen at commisioning ceremonies where people say things like ' god bless those who sail in her'.

@@kieranwilliams5148 Deutschland is German land, translated. And Deutschland as this name doesnt exist. It was the German Empire, or rather Deutsches Reich till a socialist coup overthrew the government and seized power, which enabled Hitler's rise in the first place.

Wanderer628 I really support this. Not many people know the scale of this battle. More English died that day at Towton than the first day of the Somme in WW1, yet it has had little to no media coverage.

*Wars of the Roses

Stop Studyng Denmark an go study the Rebels!

The Empire did nothing wrong.

Admiral Thrawn did nothing wrong

The Vikings did nothing wrong.

Grand Admiral Thrawn thanks from DK

Broadside to a battleship?

Bismarck: First Blood Bismarck: Devastating Strike Bismarck: Big Caliber HMS Hood: Detonation

By The way The Sheer Power Of Two Navies Literally Fought One To One. Sheer Destruction

Oha Magic Biber was machst du den hier?! XD

It was a dark time.

@@tonyhunter1892 pun probably intended

Hallo Magic biber, was für eine Überraschung dich unter so einem Video zu finden 😂

Or the battle of leyte gulf

Yeah, Batle of Leyte Gulf is interesting

He also said Brest.

Come on guys, it should be Trafalgar

Or maybe that crazy Korean turtle boat battle

Awesome comment, Mitch. Always nice to see folk discover something new and enjoyable online.

Except that the Hood actually didn't shoot at the Bismarck.

@@GastonBoucher ssh....

Gen. Patton she did, eventually.

-gets sunk by biplanes

@@callumw1597 she was scuttled lol

Although there is a little debate if it was actually a shot or gas venting.

Crag_r it was a shot, according to the memoir of Ted Briggs the men in the fire control station fired the guns knowing that he wouldn't be able to escape

I'm more surprised he mention the fact that Lutjens never gave the order to return fire, it the bismarcks captain who gave the order by both angrily over the admirals inaction and hilariously respond "I will not have my ship shot out from under my arse"

Great comment

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Biggest guns were on Nelson and Rodney

le Beast yes. She was meant to have a much larger overhaul at the beginning of WW2, bearing in mind she was showing off British naval dominance for 20 years before the war and was horrendously outdated by the outbreak of war. Then need for new and improved King George V class ships outstripped the desire to take a functioning and prestigious ship out of the British Navy for expensive and time consuming refits. Interesting point is that due to her size many British people believed that Hood was invincible and it caused huge fear in the country when news of her sinking was announced.

Felipe Castro Eyo, check the uploads, my friend! Your wish was granted.

He made one last year ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zuG4qFXPMmk.html

I now realise that this comment was made a year ago. And don't worry I feel ashamed.

No need to feel ashamed, all you tried was to help ^^ Stay amazing ♥

Bismarck in motion, King of the Ocean!

He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas

To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine!

And eat shit for breakfast

@@hatdog3101 A ship cannot eat...

But Yamato had been commissioned into the IJN when Hood was still around. Before that she would have been. The devil lies in the details

Yamato was launched at this time. So it was technically larger; it was just dockside been fitted out at the time.

just to point out the the difference between the big 4 Battleships/Battlecruisers of the different Navies in terms of date of Launch and there displacement. HMS Hood, Launched 1918 and commissioned 1920 with a displacement of 46,680 long tons (47,430 t), ISN Yamato Launched 1940 and commissioned 1941 with a displacement of 65,027 t (64,000 long tons), Bismarck Launched 1939 and commissioned 1940 with a displacement of 41,700 t (41,000 long tons), USS Iowa Launched around 1943 and commissioned 1943 with a displacement of 45,000 long tons (46,000 t) so from taking those dates you can see that HMS Hood was sailing around as the biggest of the 4 for about 20 years before the other 3 came onto the scene. In fact you could go one step further and conclude that without HMS Hood the other 3 probably wouldn't have been built in the way they were.

the larger one was calling Hood the pride of the RN, at this point in time she was acknowledged to be borderline obsolescent and in desperate need of major refit, she was sent because she was one of the few units in the RN fast enough

2: Not perfectly true. A military operation of the army or air force is called Operation. Some were called "Fall" (case). The operations of the navy were called "Unternehmen". So you are right, it was called "Unternehmen Rheinübung".

Yep

Mark Marano I saw it before but was rather happy to see it

Malevolence is the Bismarck of Star Wars.

No but I do watch him.

Yup

pftt, Old battles are boring, Say hello 15inch AP shells.

aren berberian those have been done to death by other documentary channels. The old battles are largely not covered

aren berberian pftt, Old battles where a man had to look his enemy in the face instead of getting blown to piss without warning are far better

Branching out? Dude's been writing the rules of History on RU-vid since starting. This is just another example. Only going to get better too.

Sounds much better than being stabbed to death.

PLEASSEE

yes, yes. the hunt for Bismark would be great for this video

Just in case you didn't know, it was just done today

Where is the Swastika on the Nazi flag? Because it WAS a Nazi regime not the German navy of WW1!