Why The US Navy Wants BATTLESHIPS Again (Compilation) 

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3 hour infographics video on Battleships? Answer: Yes.

Former Sosus Operator in the mid Seventies. Fairly accurate telling, so much more went on, the Illustration’s however are too simplified to rate for accuracy. It was a boring repetitive watch string, until we tracked a target, then things actually got exciting. We even were able to plot the courses of enemy targets. Pre- computer era; but it was starting up. Salute to all the Vets and active-duty folks. Ocean Systems Technician Petty Officer GTGibbs. ( The cover story for our rate was;Oceanographic Research Technician, they lied to us to get us to sign us up. And only told us the truth. On the first day of “A” School.

Im a 38 yr old man, so why do i get giddy as a schoolboy when thinking about battleships, Aircraft Carriers, Jets and guns?!

Try stopping 16 inch volleys with CIWS. Excalibur-type guidance could also be adapted for 16 inch projectiles, and probably laser guidance too.

for the most inaccurate info on the military , infographics never fails

i like how the graphics in the beginning of video have the battleship moving in reverse

Uh, correction. USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin were the two battleships in Desert Storm, which were classified as Iowa-class battleships because Iowa was the first one created. Iowa was never in Desert Storm.

It’s also worth noting that our understanding of trajectories has only increased over time as well meaning there are ways to provide better accuracy with a bullet then there was decades ago.

I made the mistake of getting lost on Ft. Bragg in 1992 on National Guard duty while driving a deuce and a half by myself which was already against orders but I was late to Guard duty and had to make the drive by myself. I pulled up to the wire at the guard shack to ask for directions and was on on my face before I knew what happened with many a muzzle pointed at me. My commander had to come get me. I had no idea I just pulled into Deltas kingdom. The fence with razor wire and worn in humvee tracks inside it, in the middle of a fenced in area is there for a reason. Back then anyone could drive on base no questions asked in most areas.

When are you going to continue the "I survived X days of the invasion" series? We NEED to know how it ends!

Bring back the Montana Class and the 18" Guns. With Gluide and Excalibur technology.

The most effective Armor made by the US and UK is Chobham Armor, now, Imagine a battleship made with Chobham armor. Even if a Anti-ship missile made to the battleship it would likely do insignificant damage. and I think if 16 inch artillery shells meant for Battleships are still in stockpile, something I highly doubt, then it would be to America's advantage to update and redesign the massive guns to modern standards with more powerful explosives and also incorporate Excalibur technology into the shells to make them significantly more accurate and able to track moving targets. Plus there are already experiments being conducted to incorporate Ramjet engines into artillery shells (the XM1155 program) which would incorporate long range capabilities into artillery shells and combined with Excalibur smart technology into those shells a new Battleship could send special shells far from being within enemy reach and still do serious damage to and sink enemy aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines and supply vessels without ever endangering itself. If I could have any influence in this kind of project I think I could generate a Battleship that would be virtually unsinkable, and be an enemy navy's worst nightmare. Plus still be able to go broadsides with any of the world's battleships and come out on top with barely a scratch, send the crew out with some fresh paint to repair the only thing damaged in battle, the hull's paint scheme, and markings.

I read once that when the New Jersey was off the coast of Lebanon, some of our Marines were taking artillery or large caliber mortar rounds from an adjacent ridge from their position so they called for naval gunfire support from the New Jersey on the ridge from where they were receiving insurgent fire. So the New Jersey unleashes some volleys from their 16" rifles on the offending position. So New Jersey radios hey Marines did that suppress the fire from the ridge? The Marines answered, yea roger New Jersey, except there's not a ridge there anymore lol!

One thing to note is, that an Ticonderoga class missile cruiser is a quarter of the size of an Iowa class. If you took like a container ship... filled it with MK41 VLC, you could probably hold more than 1000 missiles..

I think the reason they're going to go ahead and introduce these analog systems again. Are they are going to use emp.

There are countermeasures against missiles. There is none for line of site weapons like guns. When I was in, they developed guided 8 inch shells.

That opening statement was right on!!! War has def gone from men fighting to a video game.

USS Wisconsin was the last Battleship to see combat, the USS Iowa was decommissioned by Desert Storm

Iowa was not the final battleship to see combat. Missouri and Wisconsin were the two deployed to Desert Storm. Iowa had already had her number two turret center gun blow out.

Contrary to infographics, the BB’s were not brought back for shore bombardment needs, rather b/c Reagan committed to a 600 ship navy & so many of our cruisers were retiring & building capacity could not fulfill needs, so it was decided to bring the Iowas out & modernize as “real big” missile cruisers, with 16” guns indeed, but also armor sides & deck that could still take absorb significant damage.

the voice actor is very iconic

I don’t pit brother against another brother, unless they’re in a bar they’re all equally insanely trained and equally capable of handling their missions❤😂

The mysterious unspoken threat the Zumwalt destroyers were not fully capable of destroying? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that would be submarines.

World of Warships dropped the ball on not sponsoring this video.

Seems like a great job for unmanned submersible gun ships. Imaging a “boat” surfacing 6-8 miles off shore, touting large, auto loading guns, dumping 60-100 rounds onto targets. Then slips below the surface. Retreats and is reloaded.

I love these videos and want to see them all!

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I mean, Space Battleship Yamato foretold this!

Bring back the battleships with railguns instead of cannons.

Whatever happened to that Swedish submarine that "sunk" the us carrier in war games, I think they went undetected too

It's not Colorado, it's Coronado. You know, at the beach, near the ocean. Where the Navy Seals operate.

Your information and content are good. The narrator maintains a consistent and intelligible pace thats easy to follow, but the "graphics" are childish and cheesy.

one of the most important parts from the wilderness training for SAS is memory. You will be asked to tell the trainers how many trees in an area or what colour a bridge was something like that. If you fail to answer these you are immediately expelled.

Modern battle ship would go crazy

Before anyone brings up the sub section of the video and mentions the recent RN Sub missile launch fiasco. Can I remind you the vessel and crew (British) performed flawlessly.....The Polaris missile on the other hand............

Accuracy by Volume

31:38 Also colt ar-15 is NOT an automatic rifle. The Navy uses M-16's and M-4's. ( AR stands for ARmalite.)

I want them back but modified a bit, bigger, better, more hightech, imagine it having 100 tomahawks

Forget battleships, they need more subs

A shell is very hard to hit with plane or missle. So the battle ship can be needed and the shells cost less.

Devgru actually offers services for military and civilians…,let say you think you have what it takes to be a seal…, they have civilian courses, and many operators already apart of Jsoc also can and do receive training from Devgru programs…, they are the ROTC of the jsoc world. Other branches special missions groups also have similar but lesser known programs.

If the kitty hawk can take all that and float, without the support of a crew, I'd be amazed to see what the Ford could take!

It looks like you have your Zumwalt-class destroyer sailing backwards.

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And the first salvo fired from the second turret on the Iowa blew itself to smithereens killing everyone in it.

The zumwalt was suppose to give us something like a modern day battleship. However, the technology just isn’t quite there yet. I’m sure we are still trying to perfect the zumwalt main weapon system.

Battleship vs Houthis. perfect.

Battleships would be the only reason for me to cross-rate to a surface sailor

The Navy is now perfecting missile re-supply at sea. This is a game changer.

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1.5 miles in 11 minutes for the seals is nuts. I hear most guys can do it in 10.5. crazy

The Missouri was also in combat in the first gulf war

When are the challenge videos coming back we all miss those and the I survived nuclear war series

Sweet

I think battleships will be superior if they make the shells smart, just like what they have in their howitzers

The US weapons, especially offensive and defensive missiles technology, is developing so fast for the U.S. I’m guessing the battleship is probably the best platform for them.

How does the F in SCIF mean 'space'? Who was the brains behind that idea?😂

You didn’t mention the F 35 with the aircraft carrier, I’m pretty sure you left a lot more than that out then that highly capable for offensive defense that’s my thoughts

Did they change how the ASVAB works? when I took it, It was a score of 0-99. Your score was how many people in a batch of 100 that you did better than, can't get 100, because you can't do better then yourself. This allows the military to not have a hard requirement, but be able to say we're not taking the bottom X percent

I hate when I watch that other copycat channel of yours thats really low effort and does zero research, thinking its your video. Good content again, thanks!

45:30 has some pretty entertaining graphics.

I am 48, have developed cold asthma and feel a bit out of shape put fun to know I can still meet the requirement for a navy seal. A bit hard now but when I did my military service in the Swedish military it would have been very easy. Well i did beat my whole regiment for the running back then.

You are wrong about the explosive charges in missiles versus bursting charges in battleships shells. Most battleship shells had a bursting charge of less than 100lb. Most surface to surface missiles have warheads of at least 500lb. The damage battleship shells did was due to their weight and momentum not the bursting charge.

Mysterious threat : militia boat carrying a nuclear warhead tipped torpedo. One where the boat launching does not even know they are launching a nuke at the enemy naval target.

battleship Texas with 12' GUNS has been just recently restored.

Maybe if they didn't sail backwards they might have been more useful LOL

the 16 inch guns can fire a 8 inch saboted rocket assisted perjectal they tested this at NWC China lake back during the vietnam these had a range of 90 miles.

P what about this has anything to do with the military wanting new battleships

While the America was indeed a well made vessel, the strikes against it were staged according to testing parameters. Not simply a task to sink it. The testing parameters were established to make available to reviewers and engineers the need for hardening upcoming naval vessels.(carriers and such...). The need for EOD personal to board the ship was to use high explosives to break the ships back at the conclusion of testing

New concept "optionally crewed arsenal ship"

Can the salvos from the battleship be retrofit with jdam?

For explosive power and with the new tech in radar these ships will be almost unstoppable. They probably have missiles and some of the other modern weaponry. Nuclear engines? That I believe with these ships that is needed. What do you think? Of the 3 huge guns with 3 cannons each and just only having 2 huge guns. The 1 huge gun will be replaced with missiles.

Interesting

Seals usually involved water but post gwot they have a counter terrorist group besides regular seals closer to delta the true difference is one needs the navy ones a fully contained unit that has its own intel logistics etc etc

Navy has the coldest beer, oh ya. dont forget the soft serve ice cream!😮

The USS Missouri (BB-63) was the last Iowa class battleship that saw action in the Gulf

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It’s funny seeing ships sailing backwards.

The reason wasn't just the precision of the ships main gunz... it also has to do with cost effectiveness and maintenance... these ships are huge.. built to take hits and keep a float...but with missiles getting more and more accurate as well as more deadly the Navy at the time thought it would be more cost effective to build several more destroyers than try to maintain and upgrade a floating museum which at the time was a smart and dumb decision. Smart in a way to retire the ships that could no longer receive or sustain any more upgrades to keep them relevant.... but dumb in the way of not having the firepower to rain down precision guided munitions such as the excalibur precision artillery rounds from off shore instead of having to put boots on the ground and having to set up artillery positions. There was a project proposed to build a new type of ship capable of anti-ship, anti-air, anti-sub and off shore battery capabilities known as an arsenal ship, the proposed design was to be as big as or slightly smaller than the last BB-71 Louisiana Battleship, and would have at least 500 VLS (Vertical Launch System) for large caliber missiles such as cruise missiles, it was also designed to have multiple (CWIS) a helipad and bay for at least 4 helicopters a Gun Mount for 2x triple 5'inch guns capable of precision programmable ammunition one aft and the other forward. It was to also have Sonar capability and Torpedo launch capability, with upgraded armor to withstand todays high tech missiles, it was to also have RADAR jamming capabilites and Sonar decoys to fool active torpedoes...all powered by a twin reactor layout similar to carriers...The cost at the time would have been slightly less than a Gerald R Ford Class of Super carrier today.

Battleships are fantastic mobile artillery that's why.

Im 18 minutes done with the vid. Oh i still have almost 3 hours remaining.wew

5 inch are good but 16 inch is a devastating salvo.

As we speak most of the people call any ship with a big gun on it a battleship. Half the people out there don't know the difference. A battleship made today coul. d be a really dangerous ship. With new kinds of shells they could be as accurate as a missile and harder to soot down. It would be nice just to see what some of the designs look like. It would be interesting to see.

Our Navy should never be without!!

Swedish Gotland-class submarine is a singular threat that disproves this logic

We tried to sink an old amphibious assult ship, and the best our task force could do was make it list. EOD had to board and break its keel...

The little, bity, tiny small problem is that battleships are almost as expensive as supercarriers offering much less capacities, not even the US Navy can afford to divert so much resources for it, pity I really love battleships, hopefully technology advancements make it a viable class again.

you realize that this is a cartoon, right??? a CARTOON!!!

I saw the USS Texas in dry dock and it may be old but it's still a massive weapon of death and destruction. Its artillery shells weigh 15x as much as the 155mm shells used in Ukraine and it has a dozen of them as well as other huge guns. During the falkans war the British worried more about the old argentenian battleships from WW2 than the smaller more modern ships. Yeah battleships can still be used in war. We still use artillery so why not?

"Why? Because other places have oil or something? Idk. Video over." -canadian

"we all took the blue pill on the whole steel floats thing"

a battleships with the latest tech largest size and right build would dominate the seas as a modern battleship with as many rail guns as an old battle ships regular cannons would be devastating to enamies. I'm sure there would be many other ultra modern systems they would possess to survive.

I don’t think we have the industrial capability to manufacture the armor plates of the size and thickness required to meet or exceed what the Iowa class had. It would take building new factories near the shipyards.

Honestly the best thing the infographics show has brought to us is SCP explained Lol And that's mostly because they keep ending up managing to say things that are inaccurate or contradictive

Ok the ASVAB scores max out at 150 so i dont know how you get a 220. The AFQT score is a percentile so it maxes at 99. Not sure where they got that info from.

BBs will never make a comeback. At least not as we understand them. I can see BCs making a comeback, but the 16" shells (even with modern enhancements) are not cost efficient. I could see a gun focused CH or BC mounting 203's all the way up to 305's but not 406's. Any gun focused vessel will either have to be heavily escorted with a near peer (or equal opponent) or it will be used to shell insurgents who really lack the means to pose a serious threat to a naval vessel. The bigger you make a gun focused ship, the deeper the water needs to be (further from shore). I agree we (the U.S.) do need something that can fling out shells at a high volume at relatively long range but, we could do that with a CL or CA by mounting several 155's (which we already have the ammo in production ((dumb and smart shells) and still mount a credible AA defense. Most likely it will be some sort of hybrid ship that has guns AND VLS which means either one of two things. The ship is going to have to be incredibly large OR they will have to use smaller caliber guns/minimal VLS cells. The exact same reason that BBs became obsolete in WWII is even more applicable today. Instead of cheap aircraft that can be used to swarm ships, we can accomplish the same thing with missiles at a longer range, better accuracy and no risk to personal. I can see something that combines the fire power (VLS capability) of the new Constellation class FFGs with 2 turrets with 1-3 barrels each of 155's on a larger hull ( CA or CH but for current CH designations, it would have to be a minimum of 203's unless that is changed). Considering the armor a BB uses (more steel JUST for armor than most current cruisers weigh with a combat load out). I mean...considering a 1,000 LB JDAM has a range of 15 miles, just throw a stealth coating on it and dropped by a Stealth platform at 40k feet and you just lost your slow (ish), heavily armored, cumbersome and extremely expensive BB for less than $100k. That is not even counting modern anti-ship missiles. The days of 16" shells and 1' of armor belt are long gone.

Never lose this ideal use, we just need them upgraded, there is a consideration for a wide range of weaponry including more advanced technology, 30 different usages,... The Navy needs to re-build our old style battleships maybe slight smaller, but not by much, just heavily modernized,... I don't believe we are giving this a modern chance, let's get the plans started,...🙂🇺🇸

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