Where Were the Anti-Aircraft Guns of Battleship NJ Located? 

I don't think they put any in the admiral's head. Otherwise, ...

Ooh! I know this one! Inside the armored Citadel.

Yeah, the Navy had an absolute compulsion verging on total obsession with mounting light and medium AA on any unoccupied horizontal surface on pretty much any hull with a pennant number on it. :D

Immediately thought of Drachinifel and his "How many guns did American warships have? All of them."

Just about everything you can fit on there including the kitchen sink and a tuning fork LOL

Well, they are 1:300 models. They are meant to be decoration

The reason I started watching this channel was because of Ryan. I thought whose this guy whose just got out of bed to do a video.

Cobi probably created the model to make sales. They have an "If enough of you want it then it will happen" approach to sales. Get their things on pre order because they double in price once public.

That's correct on every arcade however the war was pretty much concluded at that point in the end the Iowa's were a compromise design in both arms and Armament speed and architecture especially in room for electronics radar that such thing redundancies and backups I think the napkin story is true I think Ernest King and Chester Nimitz both wanted to improve the Iowa's if they had the chance when that lunch or dinner or whatever it was they had knowledge of the atomic ordinance being developed but to be fair nobody really knew if the Japanese would surrender when we take that for granted as of the current date. But to be fair the war could have continued for another 6 months year or two I think it would have gone on at least into 1946 had we not drop the atomic bomb Kentucky and Illinois would have been finished eventually by then certainly Kentucky if not Illinois even though Kentucky's construction started after Illinois it didn't have as Many suspensions and Kentucky was basically complete up to the second deck my mother's father served on the USS North Carolina during the war he was an engine man and my dad's old man he was Marine Raider Pacific island campaign they would concur with that commanders and strategists and captains were never satisfied with aa firing arcs. But given how ship architecture works you can only maximize it to a certain extent I am of the opinion you can never have too many arms or armaments on a ship but if the USS Indianapolis is any example you can overload a warship of any kind I completely agree with you JB I believe the conning Towers were mostly at this point proven not to Be an Effective asset anymore it wasn't like the Great War and Naval Wars before ships just weren't engaging each other at close range anymore and even if you're in the county Tower it takes a direct hit from a comparable Salvo you're going to be jelly from the concussion blast so that was something they had to reprioritize USS West Virginia had hers deleted when they updated her superstructure so that didn't impede her fighting ability at all yet is in the pipeline.. I don't believe they would have augmented the existing for Iowa's though if they were going to implement this upgrade it would have been on successive designs ships bb65 and BB 66 for sure estimates for the conversion that Admiral Nimitz and Admiral King had outlined would have taken what I've read anywhere between 4 months to the better part of a year to implement but it's hard to say I don't think we'll ever really know the road not taken I think once the ships left Dry Dock architectural changes were never going to happen unless the ships were catastrophically damaged and had to be brought in for a yard period That's something that we do see had Hood not been destroyed at the hands of Bismarck that would have absolutely been the case for a retrofit had she survived her engagement but she did not she suffered the same fate as all other battle Cruisers when going up against a traditional battleship in an alternate timeline somewhere Illinois and Kentucky were completed along the retrofit outlined by Admiral King and they were impressive

@@jonathanjones3623 Keep in mind, Japan was bingo on fuel(with exactly 0 production available) while tied to the pier, much less underway. The war could not have continued as an actual war.

@@Grimmwoldds I understand what you're saying but just because they were practically out of oil reserves didn't mean the war could not have gone on there are plenty of conflicts that endure and continue regardless of petroleum products I mean the Viet Cong didn't really have a Navy to speak of other than a small hodgepodge of littoral combat vessels brown Water Navy if you will They carried on the war against the United States for better part of a decade that's when they say the Vietnamization of Japan is basically what would have occurred had the Japanese not surrendered I think the Japanese would have carried on the fight had they not surrendered fuel or not I would still consider that to be a war even when one side exhausts one resource or element or another. My father's father was a marine during World War II and there were plenty of occasions that he told me of Japanese combatants after they ran out of ammo literally soared knives taking their empty rifles with their bayonets and charging anyway still combat capable if not combat effective I think that dedication while on the battlefield can serve you well long-term worked against them when we develop the atomic bomb The Japanese had proven to be absolutely ruthless and ferocious and was just another reason why Truman authorized the historical mission of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and I know he was grateful that the war was brought to an end when it was

@@jonathanjones3623 Vietnam was a proxy war. No relevance here. We're talking about an isolated island nation with no ability to operate a navy or air force, no petroleum to operate their vehicles, a starving population due to food production and distribution systems breaking down, an already smashed industrial base with many of the workers having been killed or displaced away from industrial production areas, total exhaustion of the "warrior" supply to conscript, and a high command that was losing it's most competent officers to "defeatism"(actually realism). Their only option was surrender after Guadalcanal. They were spending their navy at the battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf, knowing they were about to become completely useless and the war was unwinnable. Once the American navy controlled the coastline(not to mention a unbelievably vast submarine fleet), their population became defenseless targets. There was no way for them to conduct a war, only get pounded until they ceased to exist.

@@Grimmwoldds proxy war large scale conflict relatively speaking doesn't matter Al-Qaeda has demonstrated quite definitively as of recently and the ground forces in the ongoing war in Ukraine that as long as you have capable foot traffic men and women willing to take up a rifle and fight or any blunt instrument for that matter the working carry on I disagree with you on that matter it is perfectly relevant an island nation with an Able Body population can wage some effective resistance whether it's coordinated effective or not the Japanese were a devoted people to their way of life the emperor and we're quite content to make any and every effort to stop the American forces from coming on to their Shores and soil. You are absolutely correct about food production stockpiles reserves resources they were diminished and out you're saying they're only option was surrender that's not the case surrender was not a a guaranteed certainty and I know this because I have been to Japan and I have spoken to a few World War II veterans from the Japanese camp death and service of one's cause was hardly something they didn't contemplate civilian Soldier or otherwise it was expected and anticipated and ingrained in Bushido To get pounded until they cease to exist as you put it with something they were perfectly contend and ready to do which is why Truman opted for the atomic bomb to coerce them into the idea that that was a practical application Mizuki Tano was a soldier I spoke to who actually fought in the battle of pelalu, i did field exercises with his great grandson and company, I take his word for it I'm sure there was some demoralized fatigue soldiers absolutely but if it was the case as you say with no give or take then why didn't they already sue for peace they had no plans to unless the emperor in their military High command decreed as such I take exception to people saying that the wars conclusions were for Granted and they were not, nobody in 1945 until after the atomic bombs were dropped new for certainty that Japan was surrender there's some people that take issue the fact that we wanted to have them make an unconditional surrender or that the Soviet Union was a truly fearsome terrifying Force for the Japanese To be certain sir I think they were there were some that were terrified at the prospect of the Soviets entering the war not from a combat perspective but the idea that the Soviets would incorporate Japanese territory into their personal territory I am often a big proponent that the atomic bomb was necessary to drive home for the living the war was over But the same fighting spirit that galvanized and enabled the United States to emerge victorious in the war was the same Warrior spirit of in the face of overwhelming odds who gives a rat's ass about the odds when the survival of One's Own society that stake one's way of life after speaking to Mr Tano I can guarantee you there was not defeatism in every Arena many were prepared to fight till The Bitter End and would have done so without any hesitation or qualm And like Its my take that being said Vietnam does have a relevance because it was that contingency that World War II commanders wanted to avoid it's the reason why Robert E Lee during the Civil War surrendered With Honor further resistance would not have achieved results or success and what happened in Vietnam could have been the case with Japan very easily. How we got mired in the environment in Vietnam could have very easily been the case in the Japanese home Islands easily and I will have to take exception and disagree with you whether it's full scale conflict or a proxy war we dropped more ordinance in Vietnam than we did the entire second World, War is War and with 17 years of service in the Air Force I can tell you Bloodshed is bloodshed Ideologies backed up by faith can be quite compelling and as long as I was still breathing and my heart was still beating and I have my weapon in my hand I would have always continued to persevere and Soldier on and in the end I'm grateful that the war ended when it did lives were spared and the world to get back to some semblance of normal

Warehouse and used or given as needed As they got obsolete got scraped May be some still stored for the reserve fleet

@@tomhenry897 Maybe Morphy's will have one for sale & Ian could invite Ryan to disassemble & reassemble & fire it.

Surprised a radar fuse wasn’t made for the 16s

That was talked about. The problem is that the modern 5" and 3" gun mounts extend through the deck and cutting through the armor would have taken too long and added too much cost to the initial refit. Had the Iowas remained in service in the 90s, a more complete refit had been proposed that would have added 5"/54 twins like the Montanas were going to use. The Midways had these guns in single mounts. The tricky part was whether or not the ammunition would make it past the turns in the hoists.

There was a 40mm on turret #3 of BB63. On the way home from Korea ('51) I slept under it on those warm south Pacific nights.

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Forgotten weapons did a video mon a navy twin 50 Don’t know the deployment history Believe the 50s were replaced by 20s

@@tomhenry897 yeah I believe it's ian McCallum on there it's been a while I may have seen it but that's correct in metric terms I think a 50 caliber machine gun is a 12.7 MM projectile so the 20 mm significantly bigger by an increment or two LOL would be better suited for shooting down aircraft my mother's father from his time on the USS North Carolina was always telling me that the M2 ma Deuces were always easier to clean and perform maintenance than the 20 mm guys used to draw straws according to him on who had to break the damn thing down he didn't have to worry about it too much he was an engine man on the North Carolina so he didn't see too much action up on the decks when combat were in play but if they ever needed an extra set of hands he never hesitated I miss him I see these videos reminds me of the heroic effort that they all did for the greater good

That is exactly what happened and we have no shame in that.

It’s the hair, right? Lol

The poor guys trying to cover his male pattern baldness