The Battleship Made to Beg for Mercy 

US Navy: “They got guts, we’ll spill em”

I was just going to say the same thing. Crazy! 16" thick armor decking. WOW

NFL

Attacking both sides with torpedoes just caused it to counter flood itself. Later w ith the Yamoto, torpedo attacks were limited to one side only.

@@johninnh4880 , absolutely nuts, brother. So I can now understand how she could take so much on top. Wonder what the armor belting was under the waterline to take 19 fish and still make steam? That thing was the ultimate juggernaut. Our modern naval vessels couldn’t take that much damage and still survive. Not even a CVN.

Modern Destroyers are one trick Ponies. Peer or near peer battles will result in range reduced to visual due to electrical jamming negating the missiles, and it now becomes a knife fight in a telephone booth. You know what sinks a ship at that range? Big , dumb, and huge projectiles.

I doubt one destroyer or one of our cruisers could sink it, especially be sure they don't carry many anti ship missiles, most are for air defense

I agree. Even though they were built to fight, there is no doubt that they were works of art in their own right.

I agree 1000%

fun fact i did see that apparently the uss iowa is being moved for refitment, its either the iowa or another uss bb

americans only deal in air supremacy

@@nomercyinc6783 Use what works to destroy what used to work until outclassed by better equipment.

theres no rip owed to axis soldiers. nobody who died fighting americans mattered

@@nomercyinc6783 many of them are just normal people and they don't want to kill other men.

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If the Japanese and the Germans and the Italians came together like England and usa and Russia and it could have been a different story I like to put this in the comments to see what people think I am english I would like see what you think about this what I have said

The word I would use is scum not great. Considering what his personnel did to surrendered POW's

​@@adriantowe278 good Question. But I think the way we fought the battles, "they" had to fight separately. America took on the Japanese all by are self. Then we join the Europeans , Full force. ( I could definitely be wrong. I'm just picking up information from these videos)

I noticed the narrator or the owner of this channel doesn't talk to the people who comments. 😒

@@icosthop9998 That's because it's a A I. Auto program

If a ship absorbs 19 torpedo hits and 17 bomb hits it's going to sink eventually. It's a testament to her strength that she took that much damage before sinking.

Fro what i understand the us torpedoes were pretty underwhelming explosive wise. And also unreliable. They fixed this later in the war

​@@scottdebeaux78American torps weren't the best in those days, built in a hurry

​@@DK-gy7llkeep on mind that yamato sunk faster bc only side was targeted with torpedoes bc people realise that it's the fastest way to capsize a ship and sink her

​@@krazykilljoy7180for a time, them on half or late 1943 the problems were fixed

I guess the Japanese thought carriers were too vulnerable after midway

So true

Japan wasn't being attacked by space fascists and earning the pity of Starsha from Iscandar.

Prepare to fire the Wave Motion Gun!

Oh man, this genre came so many years after my comic book stage. Envious

fuel efficiency didnt affect sailor MORAL

It was more stubbornness than resilience. They kept fighting after Midway but they never really recovered from it.

What with the military captivated by macho silliness, and an autistic Emperor, they had to be resilient just like every other conquered people in history.

''Their'' resilience!

theres nothing admirable about anything axis in ww2

@@nomercyinc6783 I am not a fan for sure but I always respect my opponent. Thankfully we had enough good men in those days to withstand.

いいえ。必要だから作られました。

The junior officers and ratings of the Imperial Navy who had fought so hard in the South Pacific - out of earshot of superiors, I'm betting - derisively referred to the super-battleships as "floating hotels" for senior officers. Those destroyer and cruiser men had reason to complain, because they shouldered much of the burden of the fierce early fighting in the South and Central Pacific, while Japan's most-modern battle-wagons swung at anchor at Truk or the Inland Sea. And by the time the high command sent them into action, the time when they might have made a difference had passed for good. The Japanese navy had its battleship admirals, just as the U.S. Navy did. It may have been blind luck that the U.S. carriers weren't at Pearl Harbor and that none were lost, but after Dec. 7th, it was much harder for the battleship admirals in the USN to shoulder aside the proponents of air power and carriers. That sort of awakening came too late to the Imperial Navy high-command and staff. Worse yet, by the time the primacy of naval air power was recognized, belatedly, the strength of the IJN aviation arm was highly-depleted in terms of the experience of its pilots. The Imperial Navy aviation arm was an elite group, fairly small in absolute numbers, and the fleet did not move quickly-enough to replace lost combat-experienced pilots. Rather than withdrawing them from the front line to train new aviators, they were kept in action until they were lost, burned out, or somehow managed to survive the war. The American policy of using combat-experienced flyers to train new ones paid huge dividends as the war went on.

Too many damn commercials !

なんですか？そのお笑い歴史は。もしかして世界の、白いアメリカ以外の世界の歴史をご存じない？？？

There was no comedic content in my words. I gave that Battleship props for what it took in abuse. Don’t think White America is my influence. Haha! That is no different for what you just said. I didn’t mean any disrespect. Please don’t disrespect me.

And had they ever engaged, the odds were at the time that the four Iowas would have shot them to pieces. The Iowas had far better design features, protection, electronic rangefinding and artillery accuracy than the Yamatos could hope to match.Size isn't everything. The Sibuyan Sea battle showed that the all or nothing protection scheme was flawed. The citadel region did not have enough flotation to keep the ships affloat once the bows/sterns had been completely compromised.

@@colinhunt4057 I agree. All I was saying is how big they were. The design was definitely flawed.

@@Spartan902 Agreed entirely. The design criterion of a few battleships withstanding the entire might of the US navy in some Pacific version of Jutland was simply ridiculous. The largest inherent flaw in the IJN was how much it and the Japanese army hated each other. They were at least as likely to shoot at each other than to shoot at colonial empire forces. The internal politics of the IJN was equally ferocious. There was a large continent of those in the navy advocating for carrier air power rather than more battleships. It's worth noting that neither Yamato or Musashi were completed by the time of December 7. This suggests that the big-gun battleship advocates had lost the internal bunfight, recognizing that the Great Pacific War would NOT be dominated by battleships. But then, in how many wars does it happen where the war that is expected is NOT the one that actually arrives and how it is fought? Perhaps all of them?

@@colinhunt4057 Thanks for the information. I have always wondered why they didn't use the steel to build more carriers.

@@Spartan902 Steel in Japan was severely limited. Japan had limited sources of iron in the country. Japan had no coal, and had to import it all. Most of their coal and iron came from Manchuria which they had seized from Russia in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. Japan was a heavy importer of iron and steel from the US. This is why iron and steel was included with the US oil and gasoline embargo of July 1941. And because iron and steel were limited, the arguments over how to use them militarily were ferocious.

I don't not understand what you are saying. (I'm saying you are an idiot in case YOU didn't know what is gong on [likely])

Agreed - I find the irrelevant video usage quite annoying

It's difficult for the Japanese surrounded these two ship in great secrecy from construction to death. Even when being built the photos released to the media at the time were of two heavy cruisers not these two leviathans. Even ship yard workers were forbidden to tell anyone what they were doing at work. In sinking both suffered gigantic catastrophic underwater explosions which broke Yamato into three pieces but Musashi was even worse for only the bow section up to the first Barbette lies on the seabed in one piece. The rest of her is completely and utterly obliterated. She left the surface in one piece but on her decent to the sea floor she literally blew her entire self apart.

既にその時には脱退していた定期。設計開始34。起工37。39完成。41年１２月公試。

That's Truk lagoon. Japan had built a naval station there in the 1930. But it had no repair facilities or fuel storage tanks. So other than airfields, it was actually useless as a naval base. The Americans simply isolated it rather than assault its defences directly. And that was wise as Truk was essentially indefensible. There was no need to assault it; the Japanese forces garrisoning the island were utterly helpless, out of supply, out of ammunition, and with no reliable water supply. After isolating the place for months, the US navy simply pounded Truk into oblivion.

Yes and is completly blown apart, aparently both forward and aft magasine blew up on her way down to her final resting place. Survivers also account for this, many sailors in the water was killed by the concussion.

Bout a quart pending on how hard ye pushed o'girl

I think he mentioned fuel oil

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It boils down to the Americans being under-estimated even though Yamamoto warned The Emperor that Pearl Harbor will be a huge mistake. He warned them all - and then he died for the attack. Irony is hilarious,

She had 9 18.1 inch guns. The narrator didn't pronounce "point." I have to read captions because of some hearing loss. The closed caption had it correct, just the narrator missed it. If I hadn't seen the captions, I would have thought the same as you.

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The third ship of the class was already being outfitted as such vs following the original plan.

'Secret ' makes for a catchier title.

It was built in secret. The dock workers who built it were sworn to secrecy, and forbidden to take pictures.

All three Yamato class hulls were built in something close to absolute secrecy, nothing was confirmed about them until after the war. Our Navy thought they had been armed with a new type 16" gun, the truth of the 18.1" was a shock. Estimated displacement was initially thought to be around 60,000 tons rather than the 72,000 tons in the Japanese figures. Armor protection was much heavier than USN estimates.

Then why didn't the Iowa's seek them out to destroy them. I reckon the US navy had no intention of allowing their new battleships to get into a one on one gun duel with either of them. Yes the Iowa's firepower and shells may have been superior but the powers in the navy at that time had no intentions of finding out if that was true or not. The age of the battleship was drawing to a close that why the Iowas spent their war service in a secondary role with the new capital ship the aircraft carrier now carrying out the primary role. In the Pacific war the US and Japanese fleets never got sight of each other as the war against each other was fought at great distance with only the planes of opposing sides seeing an enemy fleet.

@@AussiePom First rule of a fight - choose your time and place. Never let your enemy do the choosing. And, never fight fair. Always fight to win using your best weapons. Never give your enemy any advantage.

He didn’t allow shit. I didn’t see a political ad. They are put in at random. The content creators have no control over the adverts you see. They are based on your searches and what you show an interest in. So ironically it’s your fault you saw that particular advert.

Just some boomer who doesn't understand how technology works.

You got it

How, exactly?