My uncle was Captain of the USS Arkansas at the battle of Iwo Jima and was awarded the Legion of Merit for the battle. He was Admiral George McFadden O'Rear.
When the USS Wisconsin collided with the USS Eaton, there was a chunk missing from her bow so what they did is they took the bow from the unfinished Kentucky and put it on the USS Wisconsin. Hence making the USS Wisconsin 11 in longer than her sisters and making her the longest battleship in history
@@AI-cp1jg depends if at war or not - in most navys where there are way more captains than ships, a collision pretty much ends their career. Different when at war though, as trained officers are in short supply then - cheers
@@fabriziopastorino3792 that was weak. Was that supposed to be an insult? Italy had like two survive the war. Congratulations, you had one more than the Japanese and two more than Germany.
@@Abbeville_Kid I assume that his sources are Mickey Mouse magazine, since after the armistice we only lost the battleship Roma, for three years we prevented the English fleet from acting at its best by sinking HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant HMS Jervis in Alexandria. In total at the end of the war we saved 105 ships, my dear stupid American
I am assuming World of Warships. Considering they are only including ships that exist in that game. Hence why ships like Prince of Wales, Howe, Anson, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Yamashiro are not even included. And also why ships like Gneisenau has the upgraded 3 dual 380 mm. guns she was going to receive during the war but never did, the ship has them in World of Warships as to provide a slightly different play style to that of her sister ship Scharnhorst, which has the normal 3 triple 280 mm. main battery guns.
@@TheTrytix They are including ships that only existed on paper. Esp for the Russian fleet. 80% of the ones shown exist in the game. Some of them don't. So i am guessing the used War Thunder as well.
For Musashi you give the standard displacement. For Yamato you give the maximum load out. Doesn't make sense. Bismarck's maximum displacement was not 50300 tons, but 50950 tons. And does the Gneisenau really have 38 cm twin turrets installed, despite this never came to be?
The Gneisenau one is accurate though, she did have 15 Inch guns installed. BUT, they never saw action because Gneisenau would end up getting right after the upgrades.
@@hanjizoe2648 Gneisenau never received the 15" guns--she was hit multiple times while in dry dock and the repair work for that pushed her out of the possibility of getting the new guns with the advance of the Red Army.
The interesting thing about WW2-era German battleships is that they weren't actually meant for naval combat. Because Hitler knew his navy wouldn't be able to contend with the British Royal Navy, he decided to have them repurposed for hunting down and destroying Allied merchant shipping. By doing this, Hitler hoped to cripple Great Britain by cutting off supplies and resources the nation needed to survive. While ships like Bismarck and Gneisenau could fight against enemy warships in a pinch, their lighter caliber guns weren't that effective for taking out enemy battleships. Therefore, the ships relied on their greater speed to escape from superior enemy forces.
Yup the "outgun anything you can't outrun and outrun anything you can't outgun" philosophy. Though tbh, Bismarck and Tirpitz were massive wastes of steel at doing that job. Scharnhorst was actually the most feared merchant raider in the north atlantic despite being an older and less armored design.
@@matrinezkevin11492 To be fair, Bismarck was only really feared because she was credited with sinking the HMS Hood. She never really got to serve as a merchant raider because she was sunk shortly after that by a very angry British Navy. Had Bismarck not had that fateful encounter with Hood, I believe that she would have become a feared hunter. As for Tirpitz, she was mostly sidelined by the German Navy because Scharnhorst was the more tried and true ship. This is ironic because the former was considered the flagship.
I doubt Hitler knew too much about anything. Don't conflate the strategy of the highly capable members of the Kriegsmarine with the world's worst Charlie Chaplin fan.
Interesting video, but there are some mixed up numbers there. Some ships are listed with standard displacement and others with full load displacement. Easily noticeable with the two Japanese super battleships.
@@InfoRanker Musashi was the heavier of the 2 given it was build later with some improvement: she had 11 additional AA guns, a bigger bridge, and a larger radar. estimated to be 72,800ton.
Whenever I watch the scenes Yamato fire its main canons toward US airplanes on the way to its Okina Rescue Operation, I cry😢 Those biggest main canons were not designed for airplanes. They were for the opponent‘s big battle ships which are supposed to dominate Pacific Oceans 😢😢
Gneisenau had the same armament like Scharnhorst, two triple-turrets at the front. The video also seems to depict that Scharnhorst was taller. But both were sister ships. Musashi and Yamato were also sister ships with about the same tonnage, other than depicted here.
Hitler's Ship's Were & Are Male's Not Females. GNEISENAU Had A ReFit While His Older Brother Was Spose To. But The British Kept On Bombing Them. They Tried To End SCHARNHORST Life
Since the displacement of ships varied throughout the war, due to modernisations of the initial designs, i think he used the displacement for Musashi from 1942, after its commissioning, while the displacement for Yamato is the 1945 displacement shortly before it was sunk. Bismarck and Tirpitz for example are also sister ships, but Tirpitz was heavier due to the fact, that it was commissioned a while later, after Bismarck was already sunk in its first mission. Because of that, Tirpitz was already build with enhanced features, like torpedo tubes on both sides and stronger AA-armament. If Bismarck would have survived, it would have been upgraded to the same specifications.
@@balli7836 But we're talking about much bigger differences here, nearly 9,000 tons between Yamato and Musashi - that was never the case. Comparison Bismarck - Tirpitz: Tirpitz was heavier, anyway than Bismarck, because it had more draft already in design and construction, because it had a bigger range. When Bismarck was sunk, Tirpitz was already commissioned and in training. Her captain insisted the ship was combat-ready (which would have made a big difference, if it had also been part of Operation Rheinübung), but was overruled, because the crew just had four months of training compared to six month on Bismarck. And no, Bismarck would have got no Torpedo launchers (Tirpitz had torpedo launchers, not tubes) because at that time they already saw how useless they were.
The Gneisenau was in shipyard to get the new 15" 38cm guns like the Tirpitz, Bismarck had. After a Bombing run it was terrible damaged and work stopped.
We have the Iowa right down here in Long Beach. Beautiful ship. Just awesome. I got to board the Missouri here as well before it was retired to Pearl Harbor.
Obviously there was a reason why the Battleship became obsolete during WW2. You mentioned air cover, and yes that is true, that is required, often by adding multiple ships in the same fleet. However USA proved that with enough planes, it doesn't really matter. On Yamato's last voyage, she was accompanied by 8 Destroyers and a light cruiser. 10 ships in total, one of which was blistering with AA-guns. However, USA sent almost 400 fighters and bombers. And after 2 hours of fighting, 10-13 american planes had been shot down with another 52 damaged. Meanwhile, the Japanese fleet lost 4 of their destroyers and the light cruiser, and Yamato were sunk after being hit by 12 bombs and 7 torpedoes. So air power really showcased their dominance even in the naval theater of war.
@@TheTrytixEven by 1943 the US knew a battleships place was either to interrupt supply lines or as a gigantic metal shield stuffed with AA guns designed to defends the actual tip of the spear, carriers. North Carolina was the most decorated battleship of WW2 and it did all of that by having a fantastic AA armament and shooting down many Japanese planes. It's 16 inch guns only really saw regular use in shore bombardments.
Whether being huge is a good thing or not is not the issue. The reason why battleships have become huge is because the size of the main guns they carry has increased, and the reason why the size of the main guns has increased is because it is necessary to ensure penetration through the thicker armor of enemy battleships from a longer distance. We should understand how military engineers in the past tried to design the size, speed, and arrangement of on-board armaments. It should also be noted that even the U.S. Navy, which fully understood the effectiveness of anti-ship attacks by air power, built huge battleships during the war. Not all surface ships can be neutralized by air power alone. Aircraft were often inoperable in bad weather, at night, and under other circumstances. In fact, the IJN and USN engaged in numerous gunfire and lightning battles between surface ships even though both navies still had aircraft carriers, and these battles had a major impact on the war situation. It should be understood that destroyers, cruisers, and battleships all have their roles, and that the battleship type existed for many reasons, including technological limitations, practicality, and effectiveness. Above all, it is important to understand that huge battleships, which require a great deal of construction and operation costs, were not simply built in the dark.
Today’s aircraft carriers, planes will be obsolete one day to. Whats your point. Thats a obvious fact. It doesnt take away the amazing beasts that they are
@@olokolok1233 either yamato would be being nuclear test or be Scrapped and no way usa is not letting japan keep their own ships especially being museum
They've put the Conte di Cavour after her second modernization that was never completed. I'm impressed; I've never seen a model, only a drawing of the 70's and a couple of photos of the modernization underway.
great vid, just a quick gripe: at 0:05 the Utah that you show didn’t exist, it was a florida class battleship sunk at pearl harbor but with 5x2 12 inch guns. the model you show here is very similar to the hypothetical Vermont, which exists in the game World of Warships, armed with 4x3 18 inch guns. that ship however would have displaced well over 77,000 tons, making it heavier than the Yamato. just a detail that i wanted to point out
too right - toughest MF on the block. It was fighting to the very end and even refused to be scrapped - broke its lines and took off on its own, on the way to the breakers
As far as their main armament goes, then yes. Though if we’re getting into secondary / AA armament then things ain’t so cut and dry. By the end of each of their service careers for example (ie. them sinking) Yamato had a far more extensive AA setup than Musashi did. Also - and I’m not 100% sure about this - I’m not completely sure Musashi was ever equipped with her wing mounted, triple 6” guns like Yamato was before they were fully removed to make way for her improved AA battery.
I Just miss the lenght of this giant ships!! But excelent video, we could have some ideia of how heavy and couraced this ships are!! Thank you for up load!! :))
To the people saying warship size doesnt matter. It absolutely does. The Bismarck didnt sink because it was large. It didnt have a fleet around it. The Prinz Eugen departed and it was alone completely
Still size doesn’t matter….. HMS KGV was smaller than most ships but could easily beat any. The only ship it would struggle against is Yamato since it’s the only ship to have thicker armour than itself. But it could just wipe out the deck.
@@ddoubleg size mattered in big gun capital ship fights. Duke of York beat down the smaller and more lightly-armed Scharnhorst off of North Cape, and Washington did the same to Kirishima.
Look at the battleship Ise from the 2:17 position. we can see a lot of aircraft. Yes, this ship is the aviation battleship. It's my favorite battleship!!
Japanese sailors called the Yamato ‘Yamato Hotel’. This is because the Yamato was by far more luxurious and comfortable than other naval vessels and Japanese housing.
Thanks for making this but YFI, the 1st ship shown, USS UTAH should have had twin turrets (two guns per turret), not triples. What ship did you show there with triple turrets? Looks like a North Carolina class to me.... Also it Gneisenau has triple turrets not twins. Should look just like the Scharnhorst you had right before. They were sister ship both with 3 guns per turret. I think you may have used a Bismarck class model by mistake for Gneisenau. Again thanks for making this but as others have pointed out since you used Standard displacement for some ship, Full Loads for others, and sometimes just completely wrong displacements for other ships, many of these ships are in the wrong order.
It seems that he used ship models from the game World of Warships and because there is no USS Utah in that game, he used the model of USS Vermont, which is a fictional "What if" ship in the game based on some of the Tillman battleship designs. Obviously, Vermont would be much larger and even rival, if not surpass, the Yamato-class battleships.
@@balli7836 It's not just world of warships but also War Thunder. If you look at the model for Arkansas, the model he uses is from war thunder as the model has 20mm Orlekin mounts which war Thunder's Arkansas has but not World of Warships Arkansas
No that’s from world of warships. Those turrets are different from any American ships that were actually built: it’s a mix of the Colorado’s 16in and the fast battleship 16in. The bow shape is also different and the side of it is different too. Pretty sure that’s World of Warships idea of an American battleship that wasn’t built within the Washington naval treaty but they took that initial design and gave it a refit similar to the Tennessees or West Virginia.
@@battlerifleproductions7840 Yeah, that's possible. I don't know that much about Warthunder and its ship models, but it's plausible. Arkansas was still in service as a battleship during WW2, while its sister ship Wyoming was transformed into a gunnery training ship before the war. So i guess that the model for Arkansas in Warthunder is the early or even late WW2 version?! In World of Warships they use the version of Arkansas as it was build, with no AA at all and the two cage masts.
Furthermore in WWII the Utah (at Pearl Harbor) was being used as an anti-aircraft gunnery training ship and had no large caliber guns. In fact it was no longer a real battleship.
There is one fundamental ship missing from this line up, the first and the original, HMS Dreadnought c.18,000t. It would be really good to see her first and see how the rest progressed from there. After all, none of the rest of them would have been developed without her revolutionary design.
And Warspite proves it really isn't about size. In fighting terms she's the greatest ship there. Before you flame go read and make sure you read about her losing her steering gear and circling in front of the whole High Seas fleet at the greatest Battleship engagement ever, Jutland.
i love how all the non us ships are very modest on secondaries or have them on the hull. and then the US ones are just like strap 1 million batteries to the side.
Standard displacements: Nagato is 39,130 t. Muts is 39,050 t. Fuso is 29,330 t. Hiei is 32,156 t. Musashi is 65,000 t. Yamato is 64,000 t. (All are from Wikipedia)
Why in the world is there a USS Vermont design as the first ship? Thats a fictional design that's supposed to be bigger than the USS Montana design. Get it right next time!
Your first one isn't the U.S.S. Utah BB-31. The Utah has 5 twin turrets not four triple. Additionally, the Utah was a dreadnought battleship. Her secondary armament was placed in casemates. Not in the twin 5-inch turrets of later American designs. Just flat out that's the wrong ship.
@@tomjerry4240 What, ya think battleships sailed solo?? Much like todays aircraft carriers, battleships were escorts by a FLEET....BTW total number of battleships sunk by submarines is TWO, more aircraft carriers were sunk by subs....L2read!
@@Rockhopper1163, honestly, battleships technically never totally become obsolete in the first place, it’s just that their downsides were pushed so far to the forefront after the events of WWII that all the benefit of keeping them were ignored. To this day nothing can clear a shoreline or bring the level of artillery support as a battleship can. Compared to the missiles of today, the artillery of a battleship - though not as far reaching (depending on the gun) - are significantly cheaper and can cause far more damage.
Some times I look at HMS Nelson like it was a joke... we have some incredible Battleships that I recognise but then some are just like if you put 16 inch barrels on to the Titanic
What crap, you wouldn't have known that the R.N. was the largest navy in the world at the start of W.W. 2. Where is HMS Hood the largest warship in the world for 20 years?
Putting in work like a battleship was meant to do. Also, I’m American but the British defintely win at naming ships. I mean, have you ever been to Iowa? I have.. it’s mostly just corn. Warspite, Ark Royal, Fury, Hostile, Daring, Fearless, Stronghold, Hero, Basilisk, Jackal, Acheron, Achates, Jupiter, Neptune, and maybe my favorite Nelson.
@@FitClipper, the only reason she was designated a battlecruiser was because of her speed. She basically has the same armour and armament as the Queen Elizabeth-Class.
Huge miss, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sister ships. They do not look at all similar in the video. Gneisenau is shown with four turrets of two guns each (A Bismark configuration) instead of the correct three turrets of three guns. Not even close.
Of all the battleships that were in service, I think the Iowa-class battleships were the best. We knew that we couldn't win because of the difference in national power, but if we had used the materials and budget for building the Yamato-class battleships to build a submarine fleet from the start, I think the results might have been a little different. まあ、無理だろうけどね😅
Are the displacement numbers the final numbers when those ships were sunk or decommissioned? Most of the ships that saw action in WWII were refitted at some point with more AAA guns. You can see that especially with the Yamato. The difference in displacement between Musashi and Yamato can be partially attributed to the increased armament of the Yamato after 1942.
My uncle was Captain of the USS Arkansas at the battle of Iwo Jima and was awarded the Legion of Merit for the battle. He was Admiral George McFadden O'Rear.
Wow, that is awesome. ❤
長門と陸奥のデーターが新造初期のデータになっている為小さすぎる。扶桑型、伊勢型、金剛型は近代改装後のデータになっている。同じ近代改装後で表示するなら長門型は40000tクラスである。
YAMATO is so beautiful
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It has a certain look to it, its just different, better, cooler, more beautiful.
戦艦大和は日本の誇り
昔の姿の戦艦大和を現代にも復活してほしい
Fuso is the most beautiful❤❤❤❤
When the USS Wisconsin collided with the USS Eaton, there was a chunk missing from her bow so what they did is they took the bow from the unfinished Kentucky and put it on the USS Wisconsin. Hence making the USS Wisconsin 11 in longer than her sisters and making her the longest battleship in history
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Do officers get reprimanded when there are collisions?
@@AI-cp1jg depends if at war or not - in most navys where there are way more captains than ships, a collision pretty much ends their career. Different when at war though, as trained officers are in short supply then - cheers
Whiskey…..she’s berth in Norfolk as a museum ship.
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The French and Italians really had some underrated battleships
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@@beatboxbuggi6884 underrated and underwater.
@@Abbeville_Kid the end of arizona
@@fabriziopastorino3792 that was weak. Was that supposed to be an insult? Italy had like two survive the war. Congratulations, you had one more than the Japanese and two more than Germany.
@@Abbeville_Kid I assume that his sources are Mickey Mouse magazine, since after the armistice we only lost the battleship Roma, for three years we prevented the English fleet from acting at its best by sinking HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant HMS Jervis in Alexandria. In total at the end of the war we saved 105 ships, my dear stupid American
InfoRanker, where did you get the models for all these ships? Nice vid
I am assuming World of Warships. Considering they are only including ships that exist in that game. Hence why ships like Prince of Wales, Howe, Anson, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Yamashiro are not even included. And also why ships like Gneisenau has the upgraded 3 dual 380 mm. guns she was going to receive during the war but never did, the ship has them in World of Warships as to provide a slightly different play style to that of her sister ship Scharnhorst, which has the normal 3 triple 280 mm. main battery guns.
@@TheTrytix They are including ships that only existed on paper. Esp for the Russian fleet. 80% of the ones shown exist in the game. Some of them don't. So i am guessing the used War Thunder as well.
For Musashi you give the standard displacement. For Yamato you give the maximum load out. Doesn't make sense. Bismarck's maximum displacement was not 50300 tons, but 50950 tons. And does the Gneisenau really have 38 cm twin turrets installed, despite this never came to be?
The Gneisenau one is accurate though, she did have 15 Inch guns installed. BUT, they never saw action because Gneisenau would end up getting right after the upgrades.
@@hanjizoe2648 Gneisenau never received the 15" guns--she was hit multiple times while in dry dock and the repair work for that pushed her out of the possibility of getting the new guns with the advance of the Red Army.
They used wows and warthunder models. For example Utah is a clone of Vermont on wows.
@@GaryJones69420 well if Gaijin says it was true, it’s gotta be true right? 😆
Gneisenau have 28cm gun like the graf spee
The interesting thing about WW2-era German battleships is that they weren't actually meant for naval combat. Because Hitler knew his navy wouldn't be able to contend with the British Royal Navy, he decided to have them repurposed for hunting down and destroying Allied merchant shipping. By doing this, Hitler hoped to cripple Great Britain by cutting off supplies and resources the nation needed to survive. While ships like Bismarck and Gneisenau could fight against enemy warships in a pinch, their lighter caliber guns weren't that effective for taking out enemy battleships. Therefore, the ships relied on their greater speed to escape from superior enemy forces.
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Yup the "outgun anything you can't outrun and outrun anything you can't outgun" philosophy. Though tbh, Bismarck and Tirpitz were massive wastes of steel at doing that job. Scharnhorst was actually the most feared merchant raider in the north atlantic despite being an older and less armored design.
@@matrinezkevin11492 To be fair, Bismarck was only really feared because she was credited with sinking the HMS Hood. She never really got to serve as a merchant raider because she was sunk shortly after that by a very angry British Navy. Had Bismarck not had that fateful encounter with Hood, I believe that she would have become a feared hunter. As for Tirpitz, she was mostly sidelined by the German Navy because Scharnhorst was the more tried and true ship. This is ironic because the former was considered the flagship.
I doubt Hitler knew too much about anything.
Don't conflate the strategy of the highly capable members of the Kriegsmarine with the world's worst Charlie Chaplin fan.
Interesting video, but there are some mixed up numbers there. Some ships are listed with standard displacement and others with full load displacement. Easily noticeable with the two Japanese super battleships.
Thanks for the info!
@@InfoRanker Musashi was the heavier of the 2 given it was build later with some improvement: she had 11 additional AA guns, a bigger bridge, and a larger radar. estimated to be 72,800ton.
Very detailed ships, loved it
Many thanks!
Whenever I watch the scenes Yamato fire its main canons toward US airplanes on the way to its Okina Rescue Operation, I cry😢 Those biggest main canons were not designed for airplanes. They were for the opponent‘s big battle ships which are supposed to dominate Pacific Oceans 😢😢
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@@kipperthebest6769 Ironically it was Japanese' own Kido Butai that convinced the world that battleship like Yamato were obsolete
Okinawa
画面端に映った瞬間わかる扶桑の奇抜さよ
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違法建築ですね
あのそそり立つパゴタ風の艦橋が好きな海外ファンも多いみたい。
Glad to see the Wyomings weren't left out.
Those old girls need more attention.
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Amazing video as always InfoRanker. Keep it up legend
Thanks a ton! ❤😀👍
しかし、ペリーの黒船にビビっていた
時代から、よく、たった80年で
世界最大級の戦艦を作ったな。
なんだかんだ鎖国しながら寺子屋だったり識字率、学問の普及も進んでたから基盤があった
やっぱ江戸時代は武家政権だったことが大きい
新兵器だの新技術に目が行く
（外国のものはなんでもいいという日本人のコンプレックスもある）
正直ビビっていたのは徳川幕府のみ
天皇に対し「天下泰平」を公約にしてたから西洋との戦争だけでなく国内の戦争・一揆も恐れてる
Can't wait to see the renovations completed on the USS Texas in Galveston!
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Gneisenau had the same armament like Scharnhorst, two triple-turrets at the front. The video also seems to depict that Scharnhorst was taller. But both were sister ships.
Musashi and Yamato were also sister ships with about the same tonnage, other than depicted here.
Hitler's Ship's Were & Are Male's Not Females. GNEISENAU Had A ReFit While His Older Brother Was Spose To. But The British Kept On Bombing Them. They Tried To End SCHARNHORST Life
Since the displacement of ships varied throughout the war, due to modernisations of the initial designs, i think he used the displacement for Musashi from 1942, after its commissioning, while the displacement for Yamato is the 1945 displacement shortly before it was sunk.
Bismarck and Tirpitz for example are also sister ships, but Tirpitz was heavier due to the fact, that it was commissioned a while later, after Bismarck was already sunk in its first mission. Because of that, Tirpitz was already build with enhanced features, like torpedo tubes on both sides and stronger AA-armament. If Bismarck would have survived, it would have been upgraded to the same specifications.
@@balli7836 But we're talking about much bigger differences here, nearly 9,000 tons between Yamato and Musashi - that was never the case.
Comparison Bismarck - Tirpitz: Tirpitz was heavier, anyway than Bismarck, because it had more draft already in design and construction, because it had a bigger range. When Bismarck was sunk, Tirpitz was already commissioned and in training. Her captain insisted the ship was combat-ready (which would have made a big difference, if it had also been part of Operation Rheinübung), but was overruled, because the crew just had four months of training compared to six month on Bismarck.
And no, Bismarck would have got no Torpedo launchers (Tirpitz had torpedo launchers, not tubes) because at that time they already saw how useless they were.
@@martinschnelle3077 It is of course also possible, that he simply messed up standard and full load displacement with Musashi and Yamato.
The Gneisenau was in shipyard to get the new 15" 38cm guns like the Tirpitz, Bismarck had. After a Bombing run it was terrible damaged and work stopped.
I toured the North Carolina battleship in Wilmington NC many years ago. That is truly an amazing ship with a wealth of history.
We have the Iowa right down here in Long Beach. Beautiful ship. Just awesome. I got to board the Missouri here as well before it was retired to Pearl Harbor.
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Nagato and Mutsu is 46,690 Tons Fully Loaded...
大和は７トンくらいや
@@T-my3sc返信先合ってる？
長門と陸奥のトン数の話になんで大和の返信？
@@AlphaTheGoodness長門と陸奥が４万６千６９０トンに比べ、大和は７トン以上あるよってことです、、
@@T-my3sc何で長門と陸奥の話に大和が出てきたんや
皆さん変な返信してすみませんでした、、、、
言い訳ですみませんが世界最大の戦艦で最も有名だったので、、、
Very cool video! Keep up the good work 👌
Thank you! 👍
Big doesn't mean great. It will mean a prized target requiring more support protection, especially air cover.
They definitely don't build them like they used to. 😀
Obviously there was a reason why the Battleship became obsolete during WW2.
You mentioned air cover, and yes that is true, that is required, often by adding multiple ships in the same fleet. However USA proved that with enough planes, it doesn't really matter.
On Yamato's last voyage, she was accompanied by 8 Destroyers and a light cruiser. 10 ships in total, one of which was blistering with AA-guns. However, USA sent almost 400 fighters and bombers. And after 2 hours of fighting, 10-13 american planes had been shot down with another 52 damaged. Meanwhile, the Japanese fleet lost 4 of their destroyers and the light cruiser, and Yamato were sunk after being hit by 12 bombs and 7 torpedoes. So air power really showcased their dominance even in the naval theater of war.
@@TheTrytixEven by 1943 the US knew a battleships place was either to interrupt supply lines or as a gigantic metal shield stuffed with AA guns designed to defends the actual tip of the spear, carriers. North Carolina was the most decorated battleship of WW2 and it did all of that by having a fantastic AA armament and shooting down many Japanese planes. It's 16 inch guns only really saw regular use in shore bombardments.
Whether being huge is a good thing or not is not the issue.
The reason why battleships have become huge is because the size of the main guns they carry has increased, and the reason why the size of the main guns has increased is because it is necessary to ensure penetration through the thicker armor of enemy battleships from a longer distance.
We should understand how military engineers in the past tried to design the size, speed, and arrangement of on-board armaments.
It should also be noted that even the U.S. Navy, which fully understood the effectiveness of anti-ship attacks by air power, built huge battleships during the war.
Not all surface ships can be neutralized by air power alone.
Aircraft were often inoperable in bad weather, at night, and under other circumstances.
In fact, the IJN and USN engaged in numerous gunfire and lightning battles between surface ships even though both navies still had aircraft carriers, and these battles had a major impact on the war situation.
It should be understood that destroyers, cruisers, and battleships all have their roles, and that the battleship type existed for many reasons, including technological limitations, practicality, and effectiveness.
Above all, it is important to understand that huge battleships, which require a great deal of construction and operation costs, were not simply built in the dark.
Today’s aircraft carriers, planes will be obsolete one day to. Whats your point. Thats a obvious fact. It doesnt take away the amazing beasts that they are
Fuso was Japan's best battleship👍
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旧敵ですけど、アイオワ級が一番好きです。合理的で洗練された機能美が至高です。
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=＞仇敵？
Yamato is the most legendary battleship and its almost at the same size as the USS Gerald R. Ford
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do even your research before commenting? Largest coral reef is not nowhere big as gerald r ford
It did sink with grace. I'll give it that
Very nice work!
Thank you! Cheers!😀
Great video
Thanks!
Only one became a spaceship!
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Our Star Blazers!
大和。
Can't wait for the new American battleships to come out, like the Infographic Show said there would be.
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@@InfoRanker the Iowas going in action is gonna epic.
@@kristelvidhi5038it would be cheaper to build new ones.
There will never be a new battleship
My favorite battleship IJN YAMATO
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Me too my favourite battleship yamato
oh that worlds largest coral reef that ship was too useless
@@Ryuu1010YTI mean if the battleship had not sunken it would be used in scrapyard yk ?
@@olokolok1233 either yamato would be being nuclear test or be Scrapped and no way usa is not letting japan keep their own ships especially being museum
They've put the Conte di Cavour after her second modernization that was never completed. I'm impressed; I've never seen a model, only a drawing of the 70's and a couple of photos of the modernization underway.
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great vid, just a quick gripe: at 0:05 the Utah that you show didn’t exist, it was a florida class battleship sunk at pearl harbor but with 5x2 12 inch guns. the model you show here is very similar to the hypothetical Vermont, which exists in the game World of Warships, armed with 4x3 18 inch guns. that ship however would have displaced well over 77,000 tons, making it heavier than the Yamato. just a detail that i wanted to point out
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Never knew that the Kongou and Fusou classes had bigger displacements then the Nagato class
Nagato isn’t a class
@@AxlRodriguez-tg9nymutsu was Nagato class I think
Pound for Pound HMS Warspite see more action than any other battle ship.
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How so? 😄
@@rusmorpeh3314she fought in through heavy action during 2 world wars. She fought in battles from the North Atlantic to the pacific
too right - toughest MF on the block. It was fighting to the very end and even refused to be scrapped - broke its lines and took off on its own, on the way to the breakers
@@tjr1064 She would not go quietly.
カモメの声と波の音がお洒落でした
各々の国の為に在った船達にお疲れ様を…
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Thank God the Japanese Imperial Navy built the Yamato class as Battleships, and not as Aircraft Carriers.
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I didn’t know there was that much of a difference between Yamato and Musashi.
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Really excellent representation!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed! 😋
Musashi had exactly the same armaments as Yamato, and the same tonnage, you people need to get things correct.
As far as their main armament goes, then yes. Though if we’re getting into secondary / AA armament then things ain’t so cut and dry. By the end of each of their service careers for example (ie. them sinking) Yamato had a far more extensive AA setup than Musashi did. Also - and I’m not 100% sure about this - I’m not completely sure Musashi was ever equipped with her wing mounted, triple 6” guns like Yamato was before they were fully removed to make way for her improved AA battery.
Yamato had improvements later on...
I Just miss the lenght of this giant ships!! But excelent video, we could have some ideia of how heavy and couraced this ships are!! Thank you for up load!! :))
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To the people saying warship size doesnt matter. It absolutely does. The Bismarck didnt sink because it was large. It didnt have a fleet around it. The Prinz Eugen departed and it was alone completely
Still size doesn’t matter….. HMS KGV was smaller than most ships but could easily beat any. The only ship it would struggle against is Yamato since it’s the only ship to have thicker armour than itself. But it could just wipe out the deck.
@@ddoubleg size mattered in big gun capital ship fights. Duke of York beat down the smaller and more lightly-armed Scharnhorst off of North Cape, and Washington did the same to Kirishima.
3:22 Seems like Littorio and Roma cook pizza on their turrets.
It is a good production in any case. You did well
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Look at the battleship Ise from the 2:17 position. we can see a lot of aircraft. Yes, this ship is the aviation battleship. It's my favorite battleship!!
so unique battleship ise. I like it, too.
Never noticed that, they launched via catapult? That had to be rough on the pilots!
Japanese sailors called the Yamato ‘Yamato Hotel’. This is because the Yamato was by far more luxurious and comfortable than other naval vessels and Japanese housing.
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2:34 I love the Nelson class especially HMS Rodney (The ship that sank the Bismarck!).
Such a brutal looking ship..
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😊They had an appearance similar to tankers so sailors called them Rodol and Nelsol😂.
They were as ugly as night but they had their charms😊
All time best BISMARK in Germany ❤❤
Form srilanka 🇱🇰❤️
I loved the look of the "smaller" French Battleships ...
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The shape of the bridge of the Hiei is completely different from that of its sister ships. The only one with a tower-shaped bridge is the Hiei.
France ship looks so cool man. But King George V classes, man I'm boutta to cuhhh
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Japão tinha a marinha com o maior poder de fogo ate maior que o próprio reino Unido talvez 🤔🇬🇧?🇯🇵
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Thanks for making this but YFI, the 1st ship shown, USS UTAH should have had twin turrets (two guns per turret), not triples. What ship did you show there with triple turrets? Looks like a North Carolina class to me....
Also it Gneisenau has triple turrets not twins. Should look just like the Scharnhorst you had right before. They were sister ship both with 3 guns per turret. I think you may have used a Bismarck class model by mistake for Gneisenau.
Again thanks for making this but as others have pointed out since you used Standard displacement for some ship, Full Loads for others, and sometimes just completely wrong displacements for other ships, many of these ships are in the wrong order.
It seems that he used ship models from the game World of Warships and because there is no USS Utah in that game, he used the model of USS Vermont, which is a fictional "What if" ship in the game based on some of the Tillman battleship designs. Obviously, Vermont would be much larger and even rival, if not surpass, the Yamato-class battleships.
@@balli7836 It's not just world of warships but also War Thunder. If you look at the model for Arkansas, the model he uses is from war thunder as the model has 20mm Orlekin mounts which war Thunder's Arkansas has but not World of Warships Arkansas
No that’s from world of warships. Those turrets are different from any American ships that were actually built: it’s a mix of the Colorado’s 16in and the fast battleship 16in. The bow shape is also different and the side of it is different too. Pretty sure that’s World of Warships idea of an American battleship that wasn’t built within the Washington naval treaty but they took that initial design and gave it a refit similar to the Tennessees or West Virginia.
@@battlerifleproductions7840 Yeah, that's possible. I don't know that much about Warthunder and its ship models, but it's plausible. Arkansas was still in service as a battleship during WW2, while its sister ship Wyoming was transformed into a gunnery training ship before the war. So i guess that the model for Arkansas in Warthunder is the early or even late WW2 version?! In World of Warships they use the version of Arkansas as it was build, with no AA at all and the two cage masts.
Furthermore in WWII the Utah (at Pearl Harbor) was being used as an anti-aircraft gunnery training ship and had no large caliber guns. In fact it was no longer a real battleship.
There is one fundamental ship missing from this line up, the first and the original, HMS Dreadnought c.18,000t. It would be really good to see her first and see how the rest progressed from there. After all, none of the rest of them would have been developed without her revolutionary design.
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Littorio rand Roma have to be the best looking Battleship's.
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can you show the smallest next to the biggest at the end?
Why is the weapon of World War II so beautiful
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Imagine being out at sea...
You take a look through the binoculars...
And see all of them headed for your position
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Is the Wave Motion gun functional on the Yamato?
i was looking for yamato but i can't see it but don't lose hope. but i reached at the end than i really glad.
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Be nice if year laid down were included.
And Warspite proves it really isn't about size. In fighting terms she's the greatest ship there. Before you flame go read and make sure you read about her losing her steering gear and circling in front of the whole High Seas fleet at the greatest Battleship engagement ever, Jutland.
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戦艦武蔵最高！
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i love how all the non us ships are very modest on secondaries or have them on the hull. and then the US ones are just like strap 1 million batteries to the side.
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Nothing beats the looks of the Iowa's
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British ships have always had the coolest names. I wouldn't be surprised if they named one something like super death dealer. Lol
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Did you add mushashi
It's near the end of the video
Can you make detailed individual animations of each ship please 🙏
It would be good to see a list in chronological order.
The ship being next to Fuso is looked like Yamashiro. Some their name are missing.
These days, they'd all be considered as nice juicy targets.
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LOVE THE IOWA CLASS
Is it just me that recognized the utah as the vermont from wows?
Hi. This video is great for #WorldOfWarshipsLegends
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Standard displacements:
Nagato is 39,130 t. Muts is 39,050 t. Fuso is 29,330 t. Hiei is 32,156 t. Musashi is 65,000 t. Yamato is 64,000 t. (All are from Wikipedia)
Excellent!
Many thanks!
Mon cuirassé coup de ❤ Yamato
Very beautiful ships shame most were scrapped or sank
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Their plating is even more valuable today then back when they got scrapped
Then the next of the line will be Space Battleship Yamato. Despite having identical size. It pack more weaponry even USN would never thought possible.
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I like the video but I’m gonna die listing down the ships that sank and how they sank
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I’ve toured the USS North Carolina in Wilmington NC
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この動画でフランスの戦艦が好きになりました。
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Why in the world is there a USS Vermont design as the first ship? Thats a fictional design that's supposed to be bigger than the USS Montana design. Get it right next time!
What? Where?
@@martinschnelle3077 Literal first ship
The Gneisenau looks suspiciously like the Prinz Eugen!
Your first one isn't the U.S.S. Utah BB-31. The Utah has 5 twin turrets not four triple. Additionally, the Utah was a dreadnought battleship. Her secondary armament was placed in casemates. Not in the twin 5-inch turrets of later American designs.
Just flat out that's the wrong ship.
Battleships became obsolete when aircraft carriers took to the water and it probably cost the Japanese the war. 🤔🤨
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Ño, they were like sitting ducks, German u boats had a field day sinking them...
@@tomjerry4240 What, ya think battleships sailed solo?? Much like todays aircraft carriers, battleships were escorts by a FLEET....BTW total number of battleships sunk by submarines is TWO, more aircraft carriers were sunk by subs....L2read!
@@Rockhopper1163, honestly, battleships technically never totally become obsolete in the first place, it’s just that their downsides were pushed so far to the forefront after the events of WWII that all the benefit of keeping them were ignored.
To this day nothing can clear a shoreline or bring the level of artillery support as a battleship can. Compared to the missiles of today, the artillery of a battleship - though not as far reaching (depending on the gun) - are significantly cheaper and can cause far more damage.
No
They were all beautiful but size means nothing in the age of Carrier Warefare.
Some times I look at HMS Nelson like it was a joke... we have some incredible Battleships that I recognise but then some are just like if you put 16 inch barrels on to the Titanic
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Italian ships are underrated
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Vanguard would have made a good guided missile cruiser. Imagine harpoons and sea wizz on it.
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My favorite battleships are all the American battleships
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What crap, you wouldn't have known that the R.N. was the largest navy in the world at the start of W.W. 2. Where is HMS Hood the largest warship in the world for 20 years?
Hood was a battlecruiser
This is counting the largest ships of the war. Not until like 1940 or whatever. Yamato is heavier than Hood and overall larger. Same with Iowa.
@@quadfecta5259 Designed as a b.c. but evolved on the stocks to a fast battleship.
And where is HMS Rodney, sister to Nelson?
@@quadfecta5259as were the Scharnhorst class.
Warspite.....👊👊👊🇬🇧
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Putting in work like a battleship was meant to do.
Also, I’m American but the British defintely win at naming ships. I mean, have you ever been to Iowa? I have.. it’s mostly just corn.
Warspite, Ark Royal, Fury, Hostile, Daring, Fearless, Stronghold, Hero, Basilisk, Jackal, Acheron, Achates, Jupiter, Neptune, and maybe my favorite Nelson.
Did I in this, really good video by the way miss HMS HOOD or was she just not so big.
Hood was a battlecruiser
@@FitClipper Wasn't She 57k tons?
@@FitClipper, the only reason she was designated a battlecruiser was because of her speed. She basically has the same armour and armament as the Queen Elizabeth-Class.
@@FitClipper So were the Scharnhorsts and you could also make an argument that both Dunkys were more battlecruiser than battleship.
Huge miss, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sister ships. They do not look at all similar in the video. Gneisenau is shown with four turrets of two guns each (A Bismark configuration) instead of the correct three turrets of three guns. Not even close.
Thanks for watching! 😀
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Nice vid
nice video
Yamato is a legend for me
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Of all the battleships that were in service, I think the Iowa-class battleships were the best. We knew that we couldn't win because of the difference in national power, but if we had used the materials and budget for building the Yamato-class battleships to build a submarine fleet from the start, I think the results might have been a little different.
まあ、無理だろうけどね😅
Honestly the Iowa Class was the most powerful Battleship ever made. Yes Yamato was bigger and heavier guns but the Tech on the Iowa was much better.
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I didn’t know many of them had wooden decks.
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Are the displacement numbers the final numbers when those ships were sunk or decommissioned? Most of the ships that saw action in WWII were refitted at some point with more AAA guns. You can see that especially with the Yamato. The difference in displacement between Musashi and Yamato can be partially attributed to the increased armament of the Yamato after 1942.