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  • low innovation really the fucker said it was more advance than all of the other countries combine

  • you got to be fucking kidding me... how does this thing have low protection??

  • How is protection so low? 400 Hits = no sinking 7 torpedo hits = still no sinking Scuttling THEN it sank. It skullf***s nigh-on every other ship

  • There was only ONE reason why this ship was destroyed:

    The rudder was damaged and the crew blew it up.... No other ship at that time could take it on! Biased piece of shit.

  • Protection was low it took hours of constant gunfire to sink I'd say that was high protrction

  • Sorry to the people who think the Bismarck was the best battleship afloat. An Iowa class would eat it alive.

  • one thing they got wrong, the Bismark scuttled herself after all of her main guns and everything else on her deck had be demolished, she had no where to go, and nothing to fight with

  • didn't this military expert just said that the Bismarck was so advanced that it was to "advanced" to shoot down these old Swordfish torpedo-bombers.

    And in the rating it gots low for Innovation?!

    Service Length should be lower and Innovation should be higher!

  • lol that was the most protected and had a lot of innovation , this ship resisted over 200 shells, this ship was the prove that airplanes are more deadly than battleships, but still the greatest battleship ever!

  • WHY IS PROTECTION SO LOW????

    HOOD'S SHELLS COLDNT EVEN PENETRATE EVEN THE THINNEST ARMOR ON THE SHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • overall 8 gets better marks than 7

  • i love that the swordfish where to slow to hit

  • the service time sort well of couse it was sunk not a very fair way of rating ships relly is it if the germans had a 100 yaer old rowing boat would it get in the top 10

  • go brits

  • Bismark should be more highter in this top. He sunked the HMS Hood in 5 shots he had 8 big guns he was very good armored he was hit more than 400 times and he didn't sunk :| adn Yamata was hited 20 time and down BISMARK CLAS AT POWER!!!!

  • @LastOFSpartans Yea the yamata wasn't that good of a ship. It had 18, 16, and 15 inch guns but it and its twin were sunk by ships that had been damaged at pearl harbor which had light weaponry in comparison

  • @MagnumPI4 first, its spelled Yamato, and it had 18 inch guns, but no 16 or 15 inch guns. Also, Yamato and Musashi were not sunk by ships raised at Pearl Harbor. They were sunk by carrier aircraft.

  • @weirdguy7 im almost 100% sure the yamato had 16 inch guns complimenting the 18 inchers. And the pearl harbor ships did have a part in taking out the yamato and the musashi

  • @MagnumPI4 she had 6.1 inch secondary batteries.

  • It's interesting that the Hood and the Bismark had the same main arnament, eifgr fifteen inch guns. This series rates Hood's firepower as low but Bismark's as high. I wonder why.

  • @Steve17010 it wasnt the same gun it had different caliber, reloading and aiming mechanisms. plus the Hood's guns were at least 20 yrs older than the bismark's guns and they werent refitted before or during the WW2 

  • Low protection? WTF?! This ship took more than 400 hits in its final battle and even then didn't sink! It was Captain Lindemann who gave order to abandon ship and then sink her so she wouldn't be salvaged.

  • Maximum range at economic speed of 16 knots:

    Bismarck: 9 280 nautical miles

    Tirpitz: 10 200 nautical miles

    That says it all: These were perfect commerce raiders, able to escape any pursuit.

  • why is protection so low? :P

    it was hit more than 400 times and still stayed afloat? :|

  • @OctaviusSH

    Yeah, Yamato was hit 20 times and sunk. Bismarck was hit by torpedos and big guns and still did not sink.

  • What old planes the uk had :D

  • their rating system makes no sense at all.

  • Bismark was overrated. Like Rommel, it owed its relatively overinflated reputation to the reach and incessant hyperbole of Fleet Street.

  • care to elaborate on that? ...

  • @Sierra688 Rommel was a hero of germany, fucking americans,

  • @papabearej

    I wonder what will happen if the Afrika Korps had the Bismarck class for naval support.

  • Protection should be off the scale

  • yeah. those two ships were good... the thing is, when you have the ENTIRE BRITISH NAVY and HALF THE RAF after you, you're basically screwed.

  • The Bismark is a prime example for a breakthrough in naval warfare. Though not for warships, but for topedos. ^^

  • Iowa Beats Bismarack End Of Story

  • No Swordfish Torpedo Bombers beat Bismarck!!!

  • But If Bismarack And Iowa Got Into A Fight Thats What I Ment Kid

  • "Sink the Bismarck", rolls off the tongue nicely.

  • Actually, Pramboy09 is correct. The AA on Bismark class were aimed using primative analogue lead computing systems. The slow speed of the Swordfish could not be "programed" in by the crew.

  • pramboy09, You don't 'calibrate' your AA guns to shoot at slow or fast targets, you simply increase or decrease the lead on the target genius.

  • the narrator of course mentioned that bismarck was hitler's favorite ship, that may be true, but hitler didn't really like ships himself, he became seasick during his visit on board bismarck when she was docked in port!

  • Hitler was an ignorant asshole all round, he didn't understand how to use a navy and was just as useless with the luftwaffe and left a man even more useless in goering in charge.

  • Yeah he was just a coward, and the scum of the earth. Definitely one the worst human being to ever live and the ultimate icon of evil. You dont execute millions of innocent people only because ther jewish.

  • You can put stalin there with him as well he actually murdered more people than hitler.

  • Hey you can't knock the fuhrer!!!!

  • Hitler was actually quite smart when it came to military strategy. Britain was twice on the verge of defeat. First was the Battle of Britain/ Operation Eagle Strike, where the Germans changed their tactics which allowed the British to survive. Too long to elaborate so look it up. Second, on NAVAL warfare. Germany had Britain basically on their knees! The entire nation was a week away from starvation. Also Hitler was an amazing leader. Bad moral compass though!

  • @nezzy14 IF he was that smart he would have won the war.

  • He was smart. He just made a few mistakes. As well as Japan. If Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbour it is quite possible the US would never have joined the war. Plus, please tell me how an idiot or otherwise unintelligent being could convince the entire world that he was not doing anything bad aka invading another country, building up an army/navy/air force. Plus he brought his country out of a depression. Plus he convinced his whole nation to rally behind him.

  • @nezzy14 My statment still stands. People knew he was evil but were to scared to do anything about it until they started threatening their own country.

  • wrong. neville chamberlain refused to believe hitler was an evil man.

  • Whatever helps you sleep at night man.

  • An intellegent man would not have led his country into chaos and did things resulting of him dieing less then a day after his wedding.

  • I'm afraid I have to agree with nezzy14 here, hitler was no idoit, i mean come on you cant get to the position of dictator of an entire country by being a fool, he was an excellent politician

    On the other hand he was largely a military incompotent, which is why germany lost the war,,,he did have SOME talent as a military man but he wasnt as good as he thought he was and he just couldnt get his round that

  • Yeah if you look at it that way, but even if he did manage to get control, doesnt matter as he failed, lost and died 48 hours after he got married.

  • @1ohtaf1 I take your point lol what ever his intelligence its better all round that he had no idea how to wage a multi-front war I think

  • @sajuuk212 And thank god he didnt.

  • What does service length has to do with anything?

  • bismark = Absolute quality!

    wonder why they gave it a low score for innovation.....hmmm think the director was high!

  • protection must be weak?!?! not many battleships could stand 16" shells from 700m and not be pierced.. in fact the shockwave made by the main guns of Bismarck were so powerful that they knocked Bismarcks radar dead during its first engagement with the norfolk and suffolk

  • I persume you mean the armour couldn't be pieced when you said at 700m it could not be pieced? The reason why is that the british battleships were to close and just put holes through the superstrcture which isn't going to sink her. They should have parked them selves a few kilometres out and used plunging gunfire and that would have cause alot more damage to her.

  • Innovasion is low fairly, it was just a remake of an old WW1 Bayern class BB.

    However service length is BS, it should not even be a matter.

    Protection is low fairly, even North Carolina BB was quite superior to Bismarck, and Bismarck could not defend itself against pathetic biplane aircfart...

  • Protection gets a low score because Bismarck had rather a weak anti-aircraft defence, his armour also was not anything special - same as on a Scharnhorst.. Innovation? Discuss able.. Service length is not a 'fair' criteria at all...

  • AA guns were not weak - in fact, in comparison to other battleships of that era, Bismarck was well-equipted with AA protection. The problem was aircraft used against it- German AA guns were not designed to shoot biplanes- here only machine gun can help. That is why so many US ships had 0.5 cals as AAs. And the armour was really better than battlecruiser Scharnhorst - much better. The wreck of the Bismarck proves that itself.

  • The anti aircaft defence they had at time was very good but the problem was AA guns couldn't be calibrated to fire at the swordfish because it was so slow!

  • no its because they flew below the line of sight. the swordfish flew so LOW that they couldnt hit them not SLOW

  • No your wrong check your resources, when they designed the AA defences of the bismarck they were designed for shooting down modern monoplane aircraft. The approach of a swordfish is incredibly slow, they couldn't calibrate their guns to account for that.

  • Hood is mistakenly described as a battleship; she was a battlecruiser.

  • fear factor should have been shit loads higher !

  • bismark should be at least #3 these people have there heads copmpletly up there asses

  • If it was American then ye it would be no.1:)

  • if it survived it's one and only trip to sea,maybe ,type VII uboat makes this list,the rest of the German navy only died gallently[sharnhost]or hid out Tirpitz

  • lol.......yes, very likely. It's a shame that patriotism gets in the way of good judgment.

  • it should be 1st

  • I was thinking the same thing my friend. Sometimes I think these guys are biased, to be honest. If the Bismarck according to them was rated #7.......then which ship was # 1??

    The Japanese Yamato must have been #1 if not Bismarck.

  • well the Bismark for me is formidable battleship...... Bismark=BATTLESHIP...... but why is it in #7??? well the defensive factor against SHIPS are high.....thumbs up...... but the defensive factor against AIRCRAFTS was low...thumbs down......it wasnt sunk mainly by a warship but by AIRCRAFTS...... XD

  • Indeed, many other Battleships were sunk by aircraft (Arizona, Prince of Wales, Yamato, Roma, Limnos, and Petropavlovsk come to mind), and so were many Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines, etc.

    Though the Carrier Lobby always points-out that aircraft were effective against ALL warships, they often fail to mention that Battleships require HUGE air attacks to sink.

    Also, carriers don't always beat battleships --- ask the US Navy what happened when the Gambier Bay when it met the Yamato...

  • Well normally you keep your aircraft carriers far away from enemy battleships, thus battleships normally can't harm an aircraft carrier, whereas the airplanes can destroy em also when the aircraft carrier is still a few hundred miles away.

    Of course if enemy warships come close to an aircraft carrier it's lost, e.g. HMS Glorious and its two escorting destroyers were sunk by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the Norwegian Campaign.

  • This Programm is such a Bullshit!! This is really designed for American kids.

  • This is funny-I have to agree with all you...I think that maybe this program was designed for American kids.

    I wonder if the original air-time of this program was on a saturday morning in 2002...

    They speak of the low innovation factor probably because Bismarck's hull design(and propulsion arrangement for that matter..)was based on the WWI Bayern class-Four twin turrets as well?As for protection?Cameron proved Bismarck to be scuttled,so I think protection should have been pretty high indeed...

  • all of these plaeces are wrong

  • They just whant the American Navy to look good. Thats all.

  • @JuanJohnSmith The American Navy already looks good with out any help from this retarded series of top ten shows. They are nearly as bad as VH1 top lists (the kind that had the same instance in both the list of most metal moments in music and the least metal moments in music history).

    Is there another navy out there other than the RN that even comes close to matching the power, success, history, or longevity of the United States Navy?

  • @JuanJohnSmith Acctually the top 10 was made by Swedish ppl...

  • @valdomad Thats cool... Don't get me wrong I love all tipes of ships, I just wish they didn't brag about the american ships so much.

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  • @JuanJohnSmith Well, the American Navy did have the most powerful/hence best equipment ever seen by late 1942-43. If you mean American documentaries are sometimes biased/don't know what the hell they are talking about, yes. That's right. :D But, if you actually dared to compare a Nagato to the South Dakota, or even Nagato Vs the Tennessee, I'd laugh. American ballistics are far superior to anything in the IJN. Only Germany and France game close. Well, the British as well... Except for their BCs.

  • @JuanJohnSmith In terms of ships:

    Well armed ships = Germany

    Good looking ships = United States

    but

    QUALITY SHIPS THAT LOOK GOOD AND WELL ARMED: Japan!

  • @e0o9kii what a sensless comment o.Ó

  • @ThugCologne I think the Japanese Battleship Yamato is better than any American or European ship. If the Yamato ever fought the Bismark (German), HMS Prince of Wales (UK) or USS Iowa (USA), the Yamato would win.

  • @JuanJohnSmith no its just the USN is the most powerful navy in the world

  • wtf man this ship was so fucking heavilly armored its not funny yet they put low protection when the ship took out the hms hood in 5 shots

  • @fabster1001 just look up the story of that battle first mate, then you'll understand

  • @fabster1001 not only that it was the fasted heavyest most advanced battleship of all time taking the entire atlantic fleet to sink and sustaining over 200 direct hits without sinking SUPERB ship if not the best

  • what the fuck?

    this is realy pissing me off!

    why only 7th?

  • Deeply and profoundly retarded series.

    I get frustrated watching this crap, the producers have-

    ABSOLUTELY NO F#CKING CLUE

    -of what they are talking about.

  • Bismark should be at least #5.

  • I'm in accordance with you, my friend. At least #5 and probably, in top 3 (in my in my humble opinion)

  • This is kind of retarded. First it's one of the most advanced ships of its time and then all of a sudden scores low for innovation? Not to mention it's still going by the disproven "sunk by torpedo barrage" theory. Innovation and Protection should have been much higher.

  • Why is it's protection so low the thing took over 3 hours to sink well being attacked by aircraft and i think 3-4 ships, which is just amazing now matter how you put it.

  • Getta be the most unlucky ship ever.

    first, the ship was sent on a suicide mission, then her escort was out of action due to mechanical problems, then out of the only few hits she recieved - one of it crippled the rudder...

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