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ponter
2 years ago

This is also a question of the angle of view.

At the time of planning the ship, this was certainly still the case, while the construction phase of the ship broke out the war. In the following years, the development at military level has been at high speed. New weapons/systems were created or modified, and in some cases war strategies and tactics changed.

From the Japanese point of view, among other things, it was the fact that the Americans placed their focus in the warfare in the Pacific to a considerable extent on the air force or on carrier fleet.

The U.S. air superiority in various battles pushed the big, ugly battleships into the focus of the attacks, smaller, more movable ships were in the advantage of the large colonies in this respect.

During these years the battleships in the naval warfare took place during the Second World War.

ponter
2 years ago
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PaulVrl
2 years ago

After the downfall of the Bismarck, the time of the great battleships was almost over.

10-20 years earlier, the Yamato would have been the “Grays” of the World Sea.

mf.

DerRoll
2 years ago

It was at least the battleship with the strongest armoring and the strongest artillery armoring ever on the sea. But she didn’t use it against the US Navy planes.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_(Schiff,_1941)

Jo3591
2 years ago
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Among other things, she lacked a “modern” radar equipment for the fire management of artillery and anti-aircraft and, of course, the necessary anti-aircraft protection against submarines and hostile carriers.

Tutmosis
2 years ago

That’s exactly what answers your question. She dropped. Lowered by cheap torpedoes. That’s why there are no more battleships today. They cost sums and you can blow them out of the water with a cheap rocket. This fate also blossoms the aircraft carriers.