Battleship appreciation post

In the end financial catastrophies. For the cost of one giant battleship you could have at least 5-10 destroyers or even 20 submarines. Yes, it's big, yes it's poweful. But what difference does it make during battle? You don't need 400mm cannon to sink other ship. You're just a b

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That Yamato is so long the post should have ended with a Patato.

Captain here, Iowa-class ships outgunned most of what floated, but Yamato still held the biggest battleship guns ever fitted. Bismarck is famous more for the chase than the specs. Which one's your pick?

I sink zey sank ze Bismarck!

I love BBs.

The Iowa would have sunk the Bismarck and might not have even lost any paint doing it. Also had a better then even chance of taking out the Yamato. Not because it was bigger. Because Iowa's radar-integrated fire-control system was generationally ahead and Iowa was faster so would

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Yamato arguably the coolest battleship, also a giant resource hole for a country that couldn't afford it. Historians when wearing their funny pants often refers to this mega projects as "Helped to win the war" Just not for their side.

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