Yamato did fire on anger when 4 American destroyer charge her battle line in order to protect 6 escort carriers behind them, one 18 inch shell manage to hit a fletcher class named Johnson and it destroyed both 2 front turrets and almost blown off the bridge and she sink shortly after, the only other time that she fired on anger is when she fire termite shells at incoming planes during her last voyage and hit nothing. That is the only time Yamato ever fired her main gun that I remember
The naval rifles were measured in diameter and caliber. Caliber being how many shell diameters the barrel was. The Iowa class had 16/50 main guns. The Fletcher DD had 5"/38 guns. The barrel made a big difference.
@@Ilimar1just to clarify what the others said, it's (diameter of shell)/(length of barrel) So 16/50 means (16 inch diameter shell)/(16×50=800 inch barrel)
"Caliber" is the inner diameter of the gun, not the length. The length is then given in x calibers, as in "x times the inner diameter of the gun", but caliber is per definition not about the length
Frigates now use 2 inch guns since they are rapid-firing and they rely more on missiles. Destroyers now use 4-5 inch guns like the 127mm NATO guns but they also rely more on missiles.
Yeah personally I prefer it when it's read in millimetres. Besides everyone knows it's all about the amount of seamen and the quality of the seamen too. A big gun is useless without the right seamen. Personally when I'm firing my hot load into the enemy I choose something more discreet and understated, it's easier to pack and carry around that way, it's less likely to get snagged on something or overheat or even freeze. You want something reliable not some big cannon or Gatling gun. Personally I'd go for a nice mp5, that's what the sas use in a tight spot. It's a handful but it won't leave you sore the next day, the mp5.
Eh it and the bismark both got whacked pretty quick. It’s the reason u don’t see battleships nowadays. Too much money for something too easily destroyed
@@twurtle12hd39Super Carriers might be suffering the same fate. Not a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket when an enemy can launch missiles that outreach your ship. Even if it took 1,000 missiles to sink one super carrier it would be worth it. 5,000 plus men, like expensive pilots, or worse nuclear engineers/mechanics just gone. Then all those expensive planes, and expensive armaments. Need to get some megawat lasers in the fleet.
@@MenukiYamato was obsolete weapons in the era of aviations, both Yamato and Musashi got struck down by bunch of bomber planes with no way to fought back, they were just big ass targets. Destroyers were also constructed a lot, USN would probably gotten thousand of destroyers had they didn't stop the production. So yeah, it's 2 vs thousands, of course there are more destroyers that survived the war
exactly. there are two kinds of countries on earth. those who use the metric system and those whose men have walked, driven and played golf on the moon, starting over 50 years ago.
the wild part is they use Metric for street drugs sometimes and definitely use it for actual guns. Just look at the 9mm they always say AND the 40 Mike Mike.
Something interesting about the 16in ammo the US battleships, but mainly pertaining to the Iowa's because they had longer caliber guns, is that even though the yamato class had 18in guns, the American 16in Super Heavy AP shell weighed more and could penetrate more armor than the yamato's guns. The japanese never developed a heavier AP shell for the yamato class, from my knowledge.
@Dragonwolf920 Kind of meaningless because even in post war tests at point blank range US navy 16 inch guns were unable to penetrate Yamato class armour. In fact no post-dreadnought battleship ever sunk another with gunfire alone. Bismarck was scuttled and the Japanese “battleships” that were sunk by gunfire were actually battlecruisers. All others sank in part or entirely due to aerial bombs and torpedoes.
@@calvinnickel9995 you can easily google a picture of the 26in turret faceplate having been penetrated by a 16 inch US navel gun, so your statement is incorrect. Additionally, different parts of the ship had different amounts of armor. There were parts of the Yamato's superstructure that could be penetrated by 5 inch shells from a destroyer. Heck, you could wreck the radar array with a pistol if you got close enough.
The reason that warships had standardized gun sizes by the Second World War was because of treaty limits. In an attempt to prevent a naval arms race like the one that contributed to the Great War, the largest naval powers on Earth met to limit naval build up via treaty. The Washington Naval Treaty was followed by the London Naval Treaties. The naval treaties limited the size, power, and number of ships a country could build of each type. Destroyers couldn't have guns bigger than 5 inches. Cruisers 8 inches. Any ship with bigger guns were considered capital ships (battleships and battlecruisers). While the Washington Naval Treaty didn't differentiate between light and heavy cruisers, politics saw them defined in the 1930 London Naval Treaty. Ultimately, the treaties are often called a failure because they didn't stop Germany, Japan, or Italy from violating this system and preventing World War II. However, oft overlooked is their success in preventing a potential UK/US conflict in the 1930's. The US and UK had conflicting needs for cruiser forces. The UK needed enough ships to patrol their far flung Empire and the US needed enough ships to protect both the east and west coast. With the Royal Navy could probably get approval to build the ship's they wanted from Parliament, the US Navy was constantly fighting with a Congress that seemed allergic to spending money on the military unless actively at war. All this created a situation where the British needed more ships than the US could reasonably build. The US and UK wanted to balance power so neither had a clear advantage in the hopes it would prevent conflict, but the cruiser dispute was so critical to both countries needs that it almost caused the collapse of the treaty system in 1930. Behind closed doors, neither US nor UK politicians wanted a war or arms race, but the US public was still wary of the British Empire and wanted to feel like we equaled them while the British needed to keep the supply lines of the British Empire intact. The cruiser "ruler" was a slightly convoluted method to try and meet both countries needs. It basically said that a heavy cruiser was worth a certain number of light cruisers (I forget the exact ratio. I have it in a book somewhere in my basement). This was militarily questionable, but it allowed American politicians to claim that the US had parity with Britain while the UK politicians could claim they maintained the status of the Royal Navy as the most powerful on Earth. The politicians were happy for budgetary and diplomatic reasons. Both navies were happy because the compromise created a scenario where both nations could meet their own needs while enforcing their will on the other countries of the treaty system. It also helped maintain an amicable relationship between the UK and US which allowed Roosevelt to support the UK through the Lend Lease act once the war began.
nice explanation. it didn't help that japan felt insulted that they weren't equal parties to the number of ships it could build. I believe it was the 5- 5 -3 rule. for every 5 ships the English or Americans built the Japanese could only build 3.
It did not stop some nations from playing fast and lose with the designs giving some ships which did not realistically fit the treaties such as the German pocket battleships and the British going for a dry tonnage not including the fuel etc .
@user-bu2ro8vg8b and to bypass the heavy cruisers are more than a light cruiser they got a gun that was just below the 6 inch limit then crammed as many as they could on the ship resulting in light cruisers more heavily armed than heavy cruisers
Fun fact of the day. American Iowa class bb's had almost as much penetration on their 16" guns as the Yamato class did on their 18" guns. Just goes to show how technologically superior the American Navy was compared to the Japanese Navy by the end of the war
Funnier fact of the day: the Japanese rendered the 16in guns of the American battleships and their technologically superior fire control systems, completely obsolete on December 7, 1941.
@@IAmTheRealBill I don’t think you understand…. Battleships were obsolete after pearl harbour. Other than stroking your own ego, your entire line of thinking is irrelevant. The entire class of ship ceased to be a capital ship after December 7, 1941, full stop. It didn’t matter if the American guns had better armour penetration, or better fire control as bombs and torpedoes rendered the main guns irrelevant for anything but shore bombardment, full stop. All exchanges between battleships after December 7, 1941 would have been a more favourable engagement if one of the combatants battleships were directly replaced with aircraft carriers. In fact, I would argue with such a substitution the battle would have been extremely lopsided in favour of the combatant with the carrier. Edit: you’re comparing how fast a pair of horses run around a formula 1 track as if it’s relevant to a formula 1 race. Technology had advanced far past armour penetration of 16” shells and fire control systems by 1941.
@drewski5730 in the end, big guns didn't matter if you can send out aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes that can do more damage than 100 shells and strike at a much higher range.
There is also the BATTLE CRUISER class which had battleship armament but built for speed and were often larger than battleships because they had bigger engines. Their weakness was in being treated as fast battleships rather than super powerful cruisers. This mad them vulnerable against a battleship which was essentially a floating tank.
battle cruiser have battleship gun but cruiser armor, big gun, no armor so it light and fast but go down in 1 hit against true capital ship. bismarck demostrate that against hood.
Such as the 120mm cannon on the Abrams or the 25mm autocannon on the Bradley. Some might even say your 155mm artillery and 5.56mm rifle cartridges are all good examples of guns in inches.
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For battleships there were more sizes even than you listed, as I'm sure you're aware. For those interested, there were: -12" (many WW1 dreadnoughts, USS Arkansas in WW2) -12.6" or 320mm (modernized Italian battleships) -13" or 330mm (Dunkerque class) -13.4" or 340mm (Bretagne class) -13.5" (some British WW1 battleships and battlecruisers) -14" (American, Japanese battleships that served in both world wars, also used in a couple British and Chilean ships)
Totally unrelated to this subject but similarly, being in imperial resolution, the thread securing your typical hand held camera to a tripod is 1/4 inch British Standard Whitworth! I believe that, in most cases at least, the coolant fittings on European vehicles use British Standard Pipe threads, I think US vehicles use National Pipe threads.
Destroyers: it's not the size, but how you use it
Yamato: ain't that the truth
That's so funny since the Yamato had some performance issues 😂 (I don't think it fired in anger before sunk but I may be wrong🤷♂️)
Yamato did fire on anger when 4 American destroyer charge her battle line in order to protect 6 escort carriers behind them, one 18 inch shell manage to hit a fletcher class named Johnson and it destroyed both 2 front turrets and almost blown off the bridge and she sink shortly after, the only other time that she fired on anger is when she fire termite shells at incoming planes during her last voyage and hit nothing. That is the only time Yamato ever fired her main gun that I remember
@@mr.jancok4413 thanks for the naval history part, it's appreciated. 👍
,😂
Hello shitty submarine
"Measured in inches, or sometimes millimeters"...
Me too friend... Me too...
😂😂😂That's an understatement!!! 😅😅😅
😂😂
As inch is defined by law as 25.4mm , it is always measured in mm!
@@camillet4005then there the "4" measurment for the M1 abrams ammo rack
Noone knows what that "4" is for
Why not use .03937"? @@camillet4005
I'm gonna start referring to it as "The Destroyer"
Brooo nooo😂😂😂😂😂
Everything fun and games until 50 inch gustav railway cannon shows up
Zerstörer 1934
Heavy Cruishere😅
gamertag: CheeksDestroyer1945
The naval rifles were measured in diameter and caliber. Caliber being how many shell diameters the barrel was. The Iowa class had 16/50 main guns. The Fletcher DD had 5"/38 guns.
The barrel made a big difference.
So what does a 16/50 measure out to? Is it 16 inches x 50? 800 inches? So this is the length of the gun’s barrel?
@@Ilimar1Yes, the second number after the / is the number of shell diameters or gun bore that the gun barrel is long. Your example is correct.
@@Ilimar1just to clarify what the others said, it's (diameter of shell)/(length of barrel)
So 16/50 means (16 inch diameter shell)/(16×50=800 inch barrel)
"Caliber" is the inner diameter of the gun, not the length. The length is then given in x calibers, as in "x times the inner diameter of the gun", but caliber is per definition not about the length
@@535phobos in navel guns it is barrel and length of same. So 5inch 38 is a 5 inch diameter and 38 caliber long barrel.
"She said 12 Inch isn't enough so we made it 18"
-Married Japanese Engineer
Oh hell naw 💀
Kinda dark
Bro's bouta be in heaven
18 inch dayum son
😅
The original shaft measuring contest.
Would this not be girth?
And the bigger ones hurt
No. Spears or pikes were
Nips really going all out
@@jaiell2049that is true technically.
Every video you make is like a mini-movie.
Frigates now use 2 inch guns since they are rapid-firing and they rely more on missiles.
Destroyers now use 4-5 inch guns like the 127mm NATO guns but they also rely more on missiles.
Idk, that destroyer seems pretty big and he probably has a good personality too
Yeah personally I prefer it when it's read in millimetres. Besides everyone knows it's all about the amount of seamen and the quality of the seamen too. A big gun is useless without the right seamen. Personally when I'm firing my hot load into the enemy I choose something more discreet and understated, it's easier to pack and carry around that way, it's less likely to get snagged on something or overheat or even freeze. You want something reliable not some big cannon or Gatling gun. Personally I'd go for a nice mp5, that's what the sas use in a tight spot. It's a handful but it won't leave you sore the next day, the mp5.
Damn💀💀💀💀
Lol
😂@@chucknutly3290
@@chucknutly3290💀
They don’t call me the Destroyer for nothing
so it has a 4 inch diameter thats very large
@@conorcogan9865not big enough
Destroyers are mainly for hunting down and sinking submarines. Not for naval bombardment.
@@reynaldoflores4522 they are meant to serve as cannon fodders too
@@conorcogan9865their guns may be small but their torpedoes are bigger than a battleship's main gun lmao
Next video: Why are naval gun sizes given in millimeters? "Measured in millimeters, or sometimes inches..."
thats a short for idiots... everyone should know the things he is saying
”… so what ship are you??”
Jesus... the Yamato is the closest thing to a motherfucking Gundam you could design in WW2 times. No wonder anime became a thing later.
Eh it and the bismark both got whacked pretty quick. It’s the reason u don’t see battleships nowadays. Too much money for something too easily destroyed
@@twurtle12hd39 it's a snail compared to a battle cruiser 💀
My wife can disy
y u gotta bring anime into it just cos it's Japanese
@@twurtle12hd39Super Carriers might be suffering the same fate.
Not a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket when an enemy can launch missiles that outreach your ship.
Even if it took 1,000 missiles to sink one super carrier it would be worth it. 5,000 plus men, like expensive pilots, or worse nuclear engineers/mechanics just gone.
Then all those expensive planes, and expensive armaments.
Need to get some megawat lasers in the fleet.
I'm sure the destroyers have great personalities.
Considering how many survived the war and Yamato didn’t, there’s a lot to be said about staying power
Destroyer guns were meant for lightly armoured boats or other destroyers, anything bigger they used torpedoes.
HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA PENIS
I'm a light cruiser😂
@@MenukiYamato was obsolete weapons in the era of aviations, both Yamato and Musashi got struck down by bunch of bomber planes with no way to fought back, they were just big ass targets.
Destroyers were also constructed a lot, USN would probably gotten thousand of destroyers had they didn't stop the production. So yeah, it's 2 vs thousands, of course there are more destroyers that survived the war
These ships got more inches than most of us💀
Damm bro even naval battleship are packing them big ahh guns ✋😭💀
Where my fellow light cruisers at?
I'm a Japanese destroyer :(😢
I'm with you for light cruiser.
I'm on my way to heavy cruiser
It's not the size of the main battery, it's how you use it Cruiser Kings
Sorry mate, I am a heavy cruiser, but I am here to get rid of your enemy light cruiser ;)
“ 5 inch shells can fit in one hand “ nah it’s 2 of you hold it by the base 😬
5” round weights approximately 65 lbs and powder casing around 28 lbs. I was right gun captain on a 5”38 twin mount on a Gearing class destroyer.
Weren't WW2 5 in shells a cartridge, rather than separate projectile and propellant?
You must have tiny hands if they’re only 2.5 inch palms
These guys missed the point lol
5'8 inch very relatable 💀
Sturmtiger is chilling at the corner
Analyst: We need to spend our war resources carefully.
Japanese Navy: We require the largest shells in naval history.
Everyone gangsta till some idiot designs an 18 _foot_ gun
Closest you'd have is the Gustave gun at 31.5 inches.
It can only be fired twice before needing barrel replacement
@@isaac6077 I did mention it would have to be designed by an idiot...
@@isaac6077I thought it was 13-14 times before the barrel had to be replaced
And the materials used was subpar I think
Just remember boys even a destroyer is enough
All countries other than the U.S. use millimeters rather than inches to measure the caliber of a gun. 😂
exactly.
there are two kinds of countries on earth.
those who use the metric system and those whose men have walked, driven and played golf on the moon, starting over 50 years ago.
@@charleswidmore5458 You do know that we used metric to get to the moon, right?
@@10001vaderactually we used real measurements back then
@@charleswidmore5458wait Liberia and Myanmar did those thinks? Seems like it's nothing special then 😊
the wild part is they use Metric for street drugs sometimes and definitely use it for actual guns. Just look at the 9mm they always say AND the 40 Mike Mike.
Something interesting about the 16in ammo the US battleships, but mainly pertaining to the Iowa's because they had longer caliber guns, is that even though the yamato class had 18in guns, the American 16in Super Heavy AP shell weighed more and could penetrate more armor than the yamato's guns. The japanese never developed a heavier AP shell for the yamato class, from my knowledge.
@Dragonwolf920
Kind of meaningless because even in post war tests at point blank range US navy 16 inch guns were unable to penetrate Yamato class armour.
In fact no post-dreadnought battleship ever sunk another with gunfire alone. Bismarck was scuttled and the Japanese “battleships” that were sunk by gunfire were actually battlecruisers. All others sank in part or entirely due to aerial bombs and torpedoes.
@@calvinnickel9995 you can easily google a picture of the 26in turret faceplate having been penetrated by a 16 inch US navel gun, so your statement is incorrect. Additionally, different parts of the ship had different amounts of armor. There were parts of the Yamato's superstructure that could be penetrated by 5 inch shells from a destroyer. Heck, you could wreck the radar array with a pistol if you got close enough.
Iowa>Yamato
Need proof, I can go visit an Iowa without needing scuba gear
When she leaves you for a ship with a bigger gun:
Long Lance:
Of course, with a crew of men, they'll always ROUND UP the "size" of their guns
He still didn't answer the actual question.
There's not even a question wtf
I want a game that looks like this animation you put together.
Rule the waves is the closest one i can think of
The reason that warships had standardized gun sizes by the Second World War was because of treaty limits. In an attempt to prevent a naval arms race like the one that contributed to the Great War, the largest naval powers on Earth met to limit naval build up via treaty. The Washington Naval Treaty was followed by the London Naval Treaties.
The naval treaties limited the size, power, and number of ships a country could build of each type. Destroyers couldn't have guns bigger than 5 inches. Cruisers 8 inches. Any ship with bigger guns were considered capital ships (battleships and battlecruisers). While the Washington Naval Treaty didn't differentiate between light and heavy cruisers, politics saw them defined in the 1930 London Naval Treaty.
Ultimately, the treaties are often called a failure because they didn't stop Germany, Japan, or Italy from violating this system and preventing World War II. However, oft overlooked is their success in preventing a potential UK/US conflict in the 1930's. The US and UK had conflicting needs for cruiser forces. The UK needed enough ships to patrol their far flung Empire and the US needed enough ships to protect both the east and west coast. With the Royal Navy could probably get approval to build the ship's they wanted from Parliament, the US Navy was constantly fighting with a Congress that seemed allergic to spending money on the military unless actively at war. All this created a situation where the British needed more ships than the US could reasonably build. The US and UK wanted to balance power so neither had a clear advantage in the hopes it would prevent conflict, but the cruiser dispute was so critical to both countries needs that it almost caused the collapse of the treaty system in 1930.
Behind closed doors, neither US nor UK politicians wanted a war or arms race, but the US public was still wary of the British Empire and wanted to feel like we equaled them while the British needed to keep the supply lines of the British Empire intact. The cruiser "ruler" was a slightly convoluted method to try and meet both countries needs. It basically said that a heavy cruiser was worth a certain number of light cruisers (I forget the exact ratio. I have it in a book somewhere in my basement). This was militarily questionable, but it allowed American politicians to claim that the US had parity with Britain while the UK politicians could claim they maintained the status of the Royal Navy as the most powerful on Earth. The politicians were happy for budgetary and diplomatic reasons. Both navies were happy because the compromise created a scenario where both nations could meet their own needs while enforcing their will on the other countries of the treaty system. It also helped maintain an amicable relationship between the UK and US which allowed Roosevelt to support the UK through the Lend Lease act once the war began.
nice explanation. it didn't help that japan felt insulted that they weren't equal parties to the number of ships it could build. I believe it was the 5- 5 -3 rule. for every 5 ships the English or Americans built the Japanese could only build 3.
It did not stop some nations from playing fast and lose with the designs giving some ships which did not realistically fit the treaties such as the German pocket battleships and the British going for a dry tonnage not including the fuel etc .
@user-bu2ro8vg8b and to bypass the heavy cruisers are more than a light cruiser they got a gun that was just below the 6 inch limit then crammed as many as they could on the ship resulting in light cruisers more heavily armed than heavy cruisers
the only thing that came out of those forsaken treaties are outrageous japanese.
Good copy and paste kid.
its not about the size of the gun, its the motion in the ocean.
Yeah cause the USA made the Yamato dry hump the ocean floor😂😂😂😂
@@HoneyBadger762its like comparing a guy to a heavy duty horse penis size vibrator.
good reference
best comment so far at least and I read quite a few. It’s nice that it simultaneously makes sense and rhymes
A girlfriend told me that just before she broke up with me because I failed on both points 😂😂
I think we all thought the same way when seeing those ship inch comparisons
Your storytelling abilities are unmatched.
Yeah. The Yamato had 18 inch guns, but it's at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Rusted away.😂😂😂
Yep, caused by aircraft. Thus big battle ships have become obsolete.
And so is the 'mighty' Hood .
anyone iowa engaged in that would be blown to smithereens. carrier warfare is the king. missiles may have altered a bit, but air power is necessary
The USA made the Yamato dry hump the ocean floor😂😂😂😂
Yamato's secondary never fails to make me laugh. I still cannot believe that was a real thing.😂
So true
there were two built, the other was Musashi
"And if that dont work, Use more gun"
although Incomparable was never built, she was going to be fitted with astonishing 20 inch guns
British Captain: load the 16" guns.
British sailor: sir we use the metric system.
American tanks bore measured in mm
@@boyakyat8314 Sherman commander: load the 76mm gun.
Loader: Sir we use the imperial system.
Guess I’m a heavy cruiser
Lol
Destroyer class here 😞
Wdym
@@jimmylavc561Patrol boat here
@@ETGtheone Stay strong brother
Imagine going for a walk and just randomly getting hit by a 1 ton hunk of fast moving metal
Dang size really matters 💀
Fun fact of the day. American Iowa class bb's had almost as much penetration on their 16" guns as the Yamato class did on their 18" guns. Just goes to show how technologically superior the American Navy was compared to the Japanese Navy by the end of the war
Plus the radar and fire control that allowed them to see, shoot, and adjust over visual range…
Funnier fact of the day: the Japanese rendered the 16in guns of the American battleships and their technologically superior fire control systems, completely obsolete on December 7, 1941.
@@drewski5730you don’t seem to understand facts and temporality. 😂 the fact is the US developing those things was a result of PH, not ended by it.
@@IAmTheRealBill I don’t think you understand…. Battleships were obsolete after pearl harbour. Other than stroking your own ego, your entire line of thinking is irrelevant. The entire class of ship ceased to be a capital ship after December 7, 1941, full stop. It didn’t matter if the American guns had better armour penetration, or better fire control as bombs and torpedoes rendered the main guns irrelevant for anything but shore bombardment, full stop.
All exchanges between battleships after December 7, 1941 would have been a more favourable engagement if one of the combatants battleships were directly replaced with aircraft carriers. In fact, I would argue with such a substitution the battle would have been extremely lopsided in favour of the combatant with the carrier.
Edit: you’re comparing how fast a pair of horses run around a formula 1 track as if it’s relevant to a formula 1 race. Technology had advanced far past armour penetration of 16” shells and fire control systems by 1941.
@drewski5730 in the end, big guns didn't matter if you can send out aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes that can do more damage than 100 shells and strike at a much higher range.
There is also the BATTLE CRUISER class which had battleship armament but built for speed and were often larger than battleships because they had bigger engines. Their weakness was in being treated as fast battleships rather than super powerful cruisers. This mad them vulnerable against a battleship which was essentially a floating tank.
battle cruiser have battleship gun but cruiser armor, big gun, no armor so it light and fast but go down in 1 hit against true capital ship. bismarck demostrate that against hood.
I'm really a light cruiser, but my tinder profile says I'm a heavy cruiser.
This is not just ship canons, its everything from riffles to autocanons to artillery canons that are counted in mm
And only in countries that don't use the metric system.
Such as the 120mm cannon on the Abrams or the 25mm autocannon on the Bradley. Some might even say your 155mm artillery and 5.56mm rifle cartridges are all good examples of guns in inches.
@@lemons1559 Don't forget the classic 9mm.
Well no then we use thousandths and mm
Thank you for sharing I was a naval weapons technician in the Canadian Navy and the first gun that I worked on was a 3 inches 50…
That's why Japan always give you 100% guaranteed even in war 😂
"Yam-A-Toe" bro has a dent in his head
The bot comments are crazy
Ong lmao 😂
yeah its getting exhausting, moderating comments is like the worlds worst game of whack a mole
@@historigraph I feel you 🙂
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@@smeghead765had me chuckling, not gonna lie😂
So how big are you, "eh. I'm a destroyer"
Average guy thinking: mine is 3 inches..!
Japan really went with the "size does matter"
YOOOO MY GIRL NELSON GOT MENTIONED, SHE'S MY FAVORITE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Royal Navy's best girl ong, luv me some three turret bow side 16 inch guns
Damn straight
@5mn Well Rodney is best girl, just ask Bismarck...
Well at least when Warspite isn't involved...
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no, youre clearly wrong. The destroyers have 2 pins, cruisers have 3 pins, and battleships have 4 pins. I cannot believe this misinformation smh
@godzillaridergamer7595
Your information is out of date. Now destroyers have three pins, patrol boats have two pins, and there are no more cruisers.
I thought those were pencil tips but huge for a second
This is why they call me the destroyer
Youre telling me the guns werent 16 inches long?
Imagine getting hit by an 18" shell, even on the other side of the ship it must be hell
Uss Jonhston : I' gonna pretend i didn't gear tgat
You’d think the destroyer would be the 18”er!!
Keep up the good work!
Robot didn't even answer its own question.
What about 20 inch?
Military Engineers - What are you crazy!?!?
This made me smile.
I can't imagine the stress applied on the hull next to the turrets when they fired. Those things must have had some really strong welds.
The Yamato is the poster boy for “you need to leave this sippy hub, you are sucking the supply out”
Hey man that destroyer is funny and has a great personality
I love guns that are just ridiculously big. I bet you could kill Godzilla with one of those batteries
'The bigger the shell, the bigger the guy'
The 15cm Sturmpanzer: 🗿
Reminds me of the quote “speak softly and carry a big stick!”
the uss Montana battleship was going to be one of the biggest battle ships in the world and could compete with the yamato
Sometimes guns are also measured in pounds
Destroyer: its average ok
*watches first 5 seconds of this short*
*sighs* “let’s open the comments then.”
Awesome vid thanks so much for the upload, u got one on if the ship alters to compensate when all sheets are fired
"11 inches 🪖🔫"
"11 inches 💀"
Those old war ships are bad ass
I find it funny that the ships called destroyers are the smallest ones
Well, it’s short for torpedo boat destroyer
The name comes from their role of destroying smaller torpedo boats in order to protect larger ships
me: sees "inch"
**sighs and goes to check comments**
"...16 inch guns, this might initially sound small" bruh
Naval ops warship gunner was what bring me into warship
Great video! The "pocket battleships" were essentially over gunned heavy cruisers with 11inch guns that didn't fit either class.
I think "4 inches ain't that big" then I imagine a 4 inch hole through my body and I'm like "That's a Lotta damage"
Humans: They are too big for human size...
Shell: I dun care.
Yamato the legend that never got his chance 😭✨
This made my day better.
Wikipedia has an image of a VW beetle next to an 18 inch cannon. Bloody insane
When you're destroyer but she said she needs a heavy cruiser 😅
Guy named Nelson : - "Told ya size mattered!"
I love how the question was never answered
Ship Of The Line: "In my day, it was all about who had the weightiest balls." 🧐
For battleships there were more sizes even than you listed, as I'm sure you're aware. For those interested, there were:
-12" (many WW1 dreadnoughts, USS Arkansas in WW2)
-12.6" or 320mm (modernized Italian battleships)
-13" or 330mm (Dunkerque class)
-13.4" or 340mm (Bretagne class)
-13.5" (some British WW1 battleships and battlecruisers)
-14" (American, Japanese battleships that served in both world wars, also used in a couple British and Chilean ships)
Totally unrelated to this subject but similarly, being in imperial resolution, the thread securing your typical hand held camera to a tripod is 1/4 inch British Standard Whitworth! I believe that, in most cases at least, the coolant fittings on European vehicles use British Standard Pipe threads, I think US vehicles use National Pipe threads.
Trust me That 4 inch shell had a good personality 🤍
I could watch this on loop forever.
"So. Are you a cruiser or a battleship"
The Nelson class is the goofiest battleship ever
Now I know why my history teacher would call me Battleship in high school, she knew more than me, damn
I BET THE DESTROYER HAS A GOOD PERSONALITY
Dreadnought : Monocaliber Warship of WW1
The Yamato basically fired car sized shells