@SacreDro Bismark would have been screwed in the Pacific by either American or Japanese ships. It was quite far behind the Iowa and Yamamoto class ships, and was perhaps equal to the Nagato and Colorado class battleships. It was simply the hype and the theater in which it fought that made it so scary. Of course, it was knocked out by some silly Fairey Swordfish, which doesn't help its image.
@Gardersdorf "The max power battle ship in world is rusian "Petr the Great" project "Orlan". swallow your Iowa and does not choke even appearing on the horizon" and it was built and launched when?
@dispatcher7007 "This video is ordinary american crap. No word of any soviet class" such as?
"Graf Spee doesnt fit in there, as well as North Carolina" Graf Spee sunk a lot of unarmed merchant ships and the NC and SoDak classes served only a short time
"Missing is Kirow and King Georg V" Kirov? Why do you think she's impressive? KGV was less impressive than NC or SoDak classes
"This video isnt worth the time watching!" I disagree
@dispatcher7007 Kirov and the King George V were both VERY powerful ships but they don't compare to the Iowa class in terms of longevity and capabilities. Kirov was NEVER battle tested and therefore not really worthy of a top 10 ranking.
I will say this much: If it wasn't for the Kirov class then it's pretty unlikely the Iowas would have come back into operation. To this day, there is nothing that will match the firepower of the Iowa class.
@UAL012 KGV wasn't really a "VERY powerful" ship. Those 14" guns were way to small to make it fully BB vs BB combat worthy. Had it been finished as supposed to be, with 9 15", then I could give it to you that they would have been good ships, but not "VERY powerful". Look at the G3(Essentially a british Iowa planned after WW1) for powerful.
I agree that the order was a little off with the Bismarck, but personally it a "modern" ship that was defeated by out of date British ships and BIPLANES!!!
Also Not sure why The Yorktown class carrier was not in there considering that the Enterprise is one of the pre-WW2 ships to survive the war.
Finally the Yamato, never one a battle, it was out classed in almost every way by the Iowa class and, the American Navy proved they were better then Japaneese and German navies.
Yamato and Bismarck didn't prove itself worthy... especially the cowardly Yamato, the most disgusting ship to ever float. Imagine retreating in the face of such a very tiny fleet of American ships. Yamato is everything the opposite of Japanese bravery. The Bismarck is worthy on its post tho, it faced the might of the British Navy, just like how a brave man should face his death. Bismarck, RIP. Yamato, rest in SHAME!
@themangix357 u do realize that the yamato was damaged b4 going into that battle second of all do you know if they where having technical issues? Where u there? Was it already damage? Did it have internal damage? Was it orderd back? once u prove all those questions where no then u can state that the Yamato can rest in shame.
how did the bisbarck get on the list. it was only 1 of 2. hitler sent. 2nd one back to port never to see battle after the bismarch was shamefully sunk by an out of date torpedo plane. Iowa class has seen every war since wwll and is still going hot
I can understand why this ship got the #1. It has Armour equal to that of the Yamato but it is faster and with a modern flare added to it with Tomahawk missiles and serving for so long as a Battle ship, it had to get the top spot.
@at1212b I mean, its must be a damn good ship if every time they need a role filled in a naval conflict that needs to be filled reliably they take it out of storage.
@1169Timothy It didn't really have armour equal to the Yamato. The Japanese 18"/45 t94 guns WERE better than the Iowa's 16"/50 Mk7, especially at shorter range. Yamato was armored to take her own punch, while Iowa only had armour to protect against the 16"/45 Mk6 of the NoCar and SoDak classes, which wasn't as good as the 16"/50 Mk7 that it carried.
Plus, you can't really compare Iowa to Yamato if you take wodern day equipment into account. Then we can slap tomahawks onto Yamato as well.
you can say its american propaganda, in part you are rigth but if you pay attention you will see that the iwoa class last for almost 30 years the yamato and the bismark wore great ships but didnt last long. if you dont have battle experience and live to tell about it you cant say that you wore great at all.
@0trivium. Yes the Iowa class have longevity, but it cannot be considered the best because it has not fought any other battleship, so really it has not been tested. Just because this class of battleship has lasted the longest doesn't make it the best. It just means that the American Navy had the foresight to keep their battleships when other nations had dispensed with them or they had been sunk in battle. A shore bombardment vessel does not a great battleship make.
There is some question to that and even still, that was a "1 in a million shot"
As for the Yamato, check out her poor performance of her gunnery during the Battle of Taffy 3 at the Battle Off Samar. The Yamato alone weighed more than all the US ships yet when it was all over, the US held the sea and it was the Yamato, Nagato and the IJN Center Force that left.
Technically speaking, no carrier sunk a thing, it was their planes
@T4mp10: Seems that there were many "1 in a million" shots that took out the rudders of German ships in WW2. When does it become a "design flaw" and not a "1 in a million" shot?
Bismarck was an enlarged Scharnhorst and had a some of her machinery above the main belt. Yeah her belt was awesome but she was mission killed pretty quickly.
Iowa was faster, better FC, Radar, DC was the best and more. Give Bismarck the same radar and FC of the '44 Tripitz, Iowa, NC and SD classes FCS win hands down
These ships are not categorized only by Firepower and armor but on efficiency too ... of course Yamato and modern ships could been better to Iowas but , the yamato never lived on to earn the first place and Modern ships do not have yet served long time or fought any tough battles ... so the Iowas rightfully earn the first place after 50 years of service .
You know what? Screw this. I've been trying to make people realize Iowa is superior to Yamato, but that won't work, becouse of the mentality "BIG IZ BEST!". Now, could someone tell me WHY Yamato is better than Iowa?
And you know what ship should be No. 1? The HMS Dreadnought, or the USS Monitor. Or maybe the Swedish Halland class destroyer, being the first ship to carry an operatable SSM. THAT is an achievement.
@Papadragon18 Yamato did have one advantage and one only...it's 18 inch rounds could travel about 2 miles farther than Iowa's. HOWEVER, Iowa was faster...fast enough to be in another spot by the time the Yamato's rounds came in. Iowa's radar guns were superior. And, Yamato had some fire control issues. Who would of won? Who knows?
And battleships were very important despite what some here are saying. They pounded Islands and changed battles. Hell, they made a Normandy landing possible.
@calimar28 On the other hand, Yamato's FC was so bad you would have to count with an area of error of a couple of miles... Closer than the horizon Yamato's Optical FC would have beaten Iowa(maybe), but why would Iowa get so close?
But anyway, thanks for providing an answer that at least holds some truth in it, despite the japs not being able to use that advantage.
And I've never claimed that BBs were without use... I agree with your statement of BB importance.
@calimar28 You make a good point about battleships and shore bombardment. But nothing they did changed the war as much as the carriers and subs. Battleships were created to fight in decisive sea battles, and with but a handful of exceptions, that never happened. If not for the carriers owning the seas, the battleships would not have been able to performs that shore bombardment.
Neither the Yamato or Bismark were as good as an Iowa class. The had some size advantages but the Iowa's were faster and had FAR superior radar guidance for their guns. Essentially an Iowa could stay out of the effective range of one of those ships and still land accurate fire.
Truthfully though, no battleship should be on this list. No ship influenced war and politics more in the 20th century than carriers and submarines. But if a battleship was going to be on this list, it would be an Iowa.
@Elthenar Yamato? The largest and powerful battleship ever made?
This is partial and not realistic.
Say what you say to me yamato is far superior to Iowa. Except for have a reduce service in combat . But in combat, yamato wins. but sure, for americans is diferent.
@discovery110 As I said, I don't really think ANY battleship should appear in the top 10. Battleships really didn't do much. But if they had to have 1, it should be an Iowa. Largest does not equal more powerful.The Iowa's were a good bit faster than the Yamato's, due to better radar guidance they were accurate to a greater range. The Yamato was known to have several faults with it's armor.Also, the Iowa had superior AA and it's advanced shells gave it roughly the same armor pen as the 18 inchers
@discovery110 As I said,I don't really think ANY battleship should appear in the top 10. Battleships really didn't do much. But if they had to have 1, it should be an Iowa. Largest does not equal more powerful.The Iowa's were a good bit faster than the Yamato's, due to better radar guidance they were accurate to a greater range. The Yamato was known to have several faults with it's armor.Also, the Iowa had superior AA and it's advanced shells gave it roughly the same armor pen as the 18 inchers
I am LOLing at all these Haters that are pissed that the Iowas are number 1. Heres some questions name another ship from ww2 that can still fight modern ships and win.......only 1 the Iowas. Yamato vs Iowa both had similar range, similar shell damage possibilities, but iowas had better aiming and could put shells on target faster and alo they were way more efficent.
WHERE IS THE YAMATO? Think it's better than Iowa, even if it was not the best where is it?Simply yamato could destroy any of the other battleships that appear in this video!
@RobinsMind 3 yamatos where built, 2 where superbattleships and the other a superaircraft carrier.Yamato was the largest, best armed, had more armor, and when the 2 battleships were destroyed each of them suffered so much damage to sink 4-5 iowa class ships
yamato and its sister ship musashi had such very poor track records in ww2.
they were destroyed and sunk by enemy fire.
the german graf spee was better i think because though it faced overwhelmong odds in the battle of rio plata it was never sunk. in the end she was scuttled, not sunk.
@shakeri84 "an american tv channel placing a american fighting ship as number! what a suprise" heard that before but it was this same channel that said the Soviet T34 was the best tank in WW2, and this 'Merican agrees with that
Just because it is a US station and a US ship was declared #1, look at the other military things the US did not win
They've GOT to be kidding !! The Iowa Class were the BEST battleships ever built, to be sure. BUT - battleships per se were ALREADY technically + operationally OBSOLETE by 1941 .. therefore they CANNOT possibly be classed as No.1. The AIRCRAFT CARRIER is the best naval weapon of all time, simply for the POWER + ENEMY DAMAGE it could project afar. Nimitz Class Carriers come First; Essex Class Carriers come in Second. Forrestals come in Third. The Iowa Class Battleship .. at best, maybe No. 5
@colindominy - Length of service I think is what they're looking at and the fact is they can be put back in service again. When you couple their Iowas' armor (which one only needs a broom and paint to clean up the mess from most anti-ship weapons today) and the nuke tipped Cruise missiles and good old fashioned, "pounding by 16" 2700lbs super heavies", they are a great ship
Problem is that they are hard to produce and very crew heavy
@colindominy I guess it depends on how you look at it. If you place a Nimitz Class carrier and a reconditioned Iowa class 20 miles apart and suddenly called all hands to battle stations, I think the carrier would only get a couple of aircraft launched before the flight deck was rendered useless, and those aircraft would have a hard time with the newer anti aircraft weaponry from the battleship. (I guess I have a soft spot for the old battleships) Greetings from Wisconsin, USA.
@ameech1 - The Yamato was not better than the Iowa. While the Yamato had thicker armor and 18.1" guns, that meant squat if you couldn't hit your opponent. The Iowa outmatched the Yamato on several factors none were sexy but all mattered more than the "biggest" and "thickest". The Iowa was better in:
Damage Control
Radar
Fire Control
Speed
Rate of Fire
Plunging Fire
Secondaries
Besides thick armor and big guns, what did the Yamato bring to the table?
@heisldepp - If an American said that about a European, they'd be labeled a bigot, "typical idiot Fox News fed moron" and such
So is the same true for an Austrian?
Your accusation is 100% wrong as this "US tv show" has the Soviet T-34 as the top tank. There's goes your fine example of pseudo European intellectual and moral superiority
@sol3a1 well sorry, maybe I was to quick to judge the show, but it's just interesting to see 6 of top 8 listed ships are from us. if they list ticonderoga they could have also listed norwegian skjold or swedish visby-stealth ships. or soviet typhoon subs
haven't seen the other shows so far, but this one seemed a little unbalanced to me
@heisldepp - In my best Deutsch, "Es ist alles gut"- I can understand. What might be the issue is that the US, and only the US in WW2 could take time to study what worked, what didn't and plan for it
With the US safe from bombing, no air raid drills, no threat of armies marching over the hills, the US was safe to build and test
After all, there must be some damn benefit that we're spending ourselves into oblivion with military spending that is approaching $1 Trillion a year
@ameech1 well the 2 Yamato class ships are at the bottem of the sea..the 4 Iowas are in mothballs or Museums...exactly who is better? the ones that lived
@DNRaper Then answer my question, why should the allies fear the Bismarck if it wasn´t the best ship in that time. Even the host of this video said, that this ship brought fear everywhere it went.
@FrancisJoa: Nope the Bismarck was only dangerous because the Brits were over extended. Between U-Boats and a commerce raider in an area where there were few places to defend them would have meant taking assets from other areas to defend not only from U-Boats the Bismarck and Tripitz would have been a logistical nightmare.
DDs were great against subs but against subs and a BB, they lose.
So why do you think the Bismarck would be better than the Iowas?
@FrancisJoa: No way. The Bismarck was an enlarged Scharnhorst with all the problems of that WW 1 design and his hydraulics above his main belt
The Bismarck, as well as several other German ships of WW2 all seemed to have a rudder issue, aka Bismarck was not the 1st, 2nd or even 3rd German ship that "developed rudder" issues in combat
@ameech1 Well... problem with Yamato is that it's Aiming System was well... bad compared to the Iowa's not to mention the Iowa's shell's are as good as the Yamato's 18" shells... so I say this ranking was perfectly justified...
@mugenjohncel Iowa's shells were NEARLY as good as Yamato's, and only on long range... if closer than horizon(about 20 km), where Yamato could use her optic FC, and Iowa wouldn't have the range advantage, Yamato would probably smash her to smithereens, as her shells were as effective in short as well as long range.
But, the Iowa would evade such combat at that range. Iowa is overall the superior ship(except in short range), but I think HMS Dreadnought deserves the No.1 spot better than Iowa.
@ameech1 I agree but the Yamato did not have a lot of combat experience, they had a short service length, for some reason in the Battle of Leyte and Operation Ten-Go, they were only in the background and there was only 3 of them.
... but yes I believe if there was an 11 on this list, the Yamato should be there.
@ameech1 Well... since they use "service lenght" as factor and they bombed every supership (Bismarck, Yamato) they can as fast as they can (understandable).... no chance for any of these (build by the americas enemies) to get high in the rating.
@ameech1 The Yamato is on the bottom of the see with half the rang of an Iowa, 2/3 the speed and obviously short combat record. We will never know the accuracy details and they were both about equal in armoment for opposing shells. The Bismark is very light armor compared to both ships. Also smaller main guns.
@ameech1: "WHERE'S IS THE YAMATO" Here: battleshipyamato(dot)info/wreck(dot)html "THAT WAS BETTER THAN THE IOWA's" Really how so? Please be specific. From what I've seen the Iowa was better in: Fire Control Radar Speed DC ROF Endurance Yamato, Nagato, Haruna and Kongo plus 6 CAs, many CLs and DDs went up against 6 CVEs, 3 DDs and 4 DEs. The Yamato fired how many shots and hit how many times against slow moving CVEs? The Iowa would have taken the Yamato's lunch money
People jeep saying the German ships were the best and they had all the best stuff then why did they lose lol same thing when people say the US sucks but yet they are the worlds strongest super power lol people on YouTube are idiots! From Britain.
The Yamato isn't on the list because it didn't do jack shit except get sunk. It may have had a longer range, but Japanese optics were horrible. There's a difference between "maximum range" and actual accuracy, which the US ships were much better at. Some people like to comment because they have a Yamato/Bismarck hard on and don't look at any of the technology behind the ships. I mean damn! The Yamato retreated from Taffy 3 at Leyte, what the hell? lol
where the fuck is IJN yamato? another retarded propaganda from history channel i see. this channel can lick my balls. it makes it obvious that it works for the CIA. btw USS iowa sucks arsehole. 11" armor? that ship would be easily sunk by a few dive bombers, infact a single 250KG bomb from a D3A val sunk the "mighty" USS arizona. iowa would most likely have the same fatal end. bismarck can sink it single handedly. iowa has a tight firing ark for its secondaries aswell.
@knight0Farabia07 The three bombs that hit the Arizona were converted 16in armor piercing shells that weighed 2100 pounds. One glanced off the armor covered third turret, one failed to penetrate the main armored deck and one exploded in the bow setting off gasoline and black powered intended for the catapult that had previously been mounted on #2 turret, which then set off the forward magazine. The Iowa class has vertical armor equivalent to 16in and main deck armor of 6.5 and 3 in.
@knight0Farabia07 The Japanese battleships were sunk by bombs and torpedoes delivered by American planes. The Bismark had 15in guns firing a shell that weighed 1950 pounds and would not have penetrated the armor of ANY American battleship. The Iowa, South Dakota, Washington and Colorado class battleships all had 16in guns capable of firing shells that weighed 2350 pounds to 2750 pounds and all capable of hitting and sinking the Bismark from a great distance. That's the facts jack.
@Thissuxxxfull amerikan warmachines are the best of all time? riiiight if they faced amerika or japan 1 on 1 they'd face a massive defeat, the german war machine was the best, best tanks best airforce best submarines best ground forces best generals. amerika? they recruit monkeys for their army. their tanks? those shitty M4s wont scratch a PZIV. their airforce? those P51s are old crappy junk, no match for modern fighters like the FW190 or the BF109G or the ME262
@knight0Farabia07 Thats right. the german war machine was the best, best tanks best airforce best submarines...it WAS the best...its a long time ago... now the germans are a shodow of himself....boring
Lawl...crap ranking. America with his stolen technics from german top engineers after ww2. After ww2 the germans would not allow to have battleships, submarines and all of this shit. The bismark is ranked on 7th? lol
the entire fleet has hunted the bismark...1vs1>>> this battleship would swimm today on earth wonderfull oceans ;) This wunderfull engineers work deserved rank 2 or 1...bismark is a legend and needs a lift. Look @ the bismark today. she looks like a fresh ship ;) rust?? no! :)
@Thissuxxxfull The Bismark is sitting 2 miles down on the ocean bottom and will eventually rust away, just give it another 50 years. Missing from the wreck is it's stern section, it seems the German engineers stopped being wonderful when they got that far aft. America didn't steal anything from the Germans, they helped defeat Germany so they got the spoils.
I would have made the German U-boats as number two for almost bringing England to her knees and the American subs at number one for actually bringing Japan to her knees and sinking more Japanese merchantmen and warships then all the other allied warships and aircraft combined! BTW-the American Cleveland class light cruisers (most numerous hull class) and the British "Flower" class corvettes ( and American DEs) did a hell of a job in WW2 as well!
@TexasSniper7 The Texas and the New York were of the same class and they both were used in the two world wars. They introduced several innovative ideas when they were launched and both were considered quite fast and well armed at the time. Their sister ship, the USS Utah still lies in the mud at Pearl Harbor.
@Bullettube Whether it was a mistake or not, it was still the biggest and most powerful battleship of the time and it should be put in this list. Following your logic Bismark was also the biggest mistake Germany could have build back in 1940.
@EminidisMike Yup. Germany could have built 100 more U-Boats with the material it took to build the battleships and finished the aircraft carrier they had laid down. Being the biggest battleship is cause for temporary bragging rights only, since bigger and better ships were already being built in America and Japan.
I just dont see why this ship made it to #1 the carriers of WWII have more to show than any other ship in the world they did more to the war effort than any othership in history
@EmperorHelix I was just being sarcastic. surely arleigh burke, ticonderoga, and kirov woul be first. Iowo should not be first, but rather 3rd or 4th. its like putting the spitefire first if u were comparing planes.
@CanadaJarod well if the BB can come in range of the nimitz class, the carrier goes down, only prob is that the range of the nimitz class is far greater the the BB
@ComandanteJ Except one shell hit from a battleship would make it a sitting duck. True, getting that shot in would be difficult but take away it's flight deck and you have Japan's Midway.
How are the ballistic missle nuclear subs of the US and USSR/Russia not number 1 on this list? For that matter, how is a battleship ranked higher than the Nimitz class? Poor list.
@DNRaper but you have to admit the typhoon is just fucking awesome... it is a shame they did not include any russian ships in this vid, but then again it was probably biased. but back to your point, are the SLBM's on the typhoon not more powerful then the american ones?
@shammy63 I'm sorry but I understand fighting ships by surface ships, for me not even a carrier should be in this list. I acknowledge that as a minimum, they should be a russian heavy battlecruise missile-launcher Kirov class on this list ... The Russian SLBMs have more power than the Americans SLBMs, but the impact of any of these 2 types of ballistic missiles against the target would result in total destruction of it. In a weapon so powerful, 5 megatons more of power are invaluable for use.
@shammy63 * In a weapon so powerful, 5 megatons more of power aren't invaluable for use. PD: neither of these nuclear submarines took a long great time in service, because the Cold War is over. The Trident-Ohio class are reconverted in SSGN and the Typhoon class are being to scrapped because Russia considered it obsolete with only 5 years older than the the Trident-Ohio class. But the Typhoons are more impressive and bigger than Tident-Ohios, or those russian submarines designed to replace them
False. The US has the best weapons because they can spell words like "weapons," "because," and "propoganda" correctly. <- Clearly you cannot. It is "propaganda". With one O.
@Cytacon Adm Kuzetsov is not a very impressive carrier. Kirov is very impressive. Maybe its not on the list because so few have been made, and its never seen combat.
this is so US propoganda. WHERE IS YAMATO? 18 inch guns hello? And anyways yamato was the biggest battleship in the world and was good, but only under japanese hands they failed. not even in the top 10 yamato should be. fletcher shouldn't be #5 who carse about them maybe #10. Queen elizabeth? lmao. those ships blew hard.
@TheAce1082 The Yamato is not on the list because it never once used its 18 guns on another capitol ship, as it was intended to. Additionally, Japanese naval design lagged behind Allied designs by the end of the war. While the Yamato was without a doubt the largest, the Iowa class battleship would have been an even match in combat.
@TheAce1082 the ship class has to actually have a COMBAT or SERVICE RECORD to speak of, both ships being destroyed after a very short and mostly uneventful lifespan, being too fuel hungry to be effective on the vast pacific ocean that they were designed to operate on, and having grossly inferior AA capabilities despite the fact that it was known at the time they were lost that US aircraft was their biggest threat, yeah buddy the yamato class would not have had any business on the list
@HelmutVillam helmut suck my balls i hope u realize that I got a 800 in my SAT World History exam and a 5 on my AP European history exam. Wait ur a fucking rotten toothed brit. Oh ok i'll speak in ur shitty accent for u. I'm smart enough to get into fucking Cambridge so suck my balls. O and btw if u haven't realized this episode is filled with american bullshit. Americans made it so that their ships are rated superior. Why don't u include some japanese ships then u fucking imperialist.
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Navdan87 1 day ago
not even yamato battleship????
leksss4 4 weeks ago
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@leksss4 "not even yamato battleship????" what did the Yamato or Musashi ever do besides look impressive?
sol3a1 1 week ago in playlist tOP TEN fIGHTING sHIPS
Bismarck would be in top 3 easily.
SacreDro 1 month ago
@SacreDro Maybe, but the Bismarck was unfortunate enough to find itself at the bottom... of the ocean.
Atrollin2 3 weeks ago
@SacreDro Bismark would have been screwed in the Pacific by either American or Japanese ships. It was quite far behind the Iowa and Yamamoto class ships, and was perhaps equal to the Nagato and Colorado class battleships. It was simply the hype and the theater in which it fought that made it so scary. Of course, it was knocked out by some silly Fairey Swordfish, which doesn't help its image.
javakris 2 weeks ago
Great Ship
MrKsomers4 1 month ago
mmm I see 4 Iowa class battleships still ready for battle 2 Yamato class sunk 2 Bismark class...Never heard that the "Peter the Great" even left port
The Top of the line German BS sunk by 20 yr old planes
cologreendragon 1 month ago
The max power battle ship in world is rusian "Petr the Great" project "Orlan". swallow your Iowa and does not choke even appearing on the horizon.
Gardersdorf 2 months ago
@Gardersdorf "The max power battle ship in world is rusian "Petr the Great" project "Orlan". swallow your Iowa and does not choke even appearing on the horizon" and it was built and launched when?
sol3a1 2 months ago
This video is ordinary american crap. No word of any soviet class.
Graf Spee doesnt fit in there, as well as North Carolina.
Missing is Kirow and King Georg V
This video isnt worth the time watching!
dispatcher7007 2 months ago
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@dispatcher7007 "This video is ordinary american crap. No word of any soviet class" such as?
"Graf Spee doesnt fit in there, as well as North Carolina" Graf Spee sunk a lot of unarmed merchant ships and the NC and SoDak classes served only a short time
"Missing is Kirow and King Georg V" Kirov? Why do you think she's impressive? KGV was less impressive than NC or SoDak classes
"This video isnt worth the time watching!" I disagree
sol3a1 2 months ago
@dispatcher7007 Kirov and the King George V were both VERY powerful ships but they don't compare to the Iowa class in terms of longevity and capabilities. Kirov was NEVER battle tested and therefore not really worthy of a top 10 ranking.
I will say this much: If it wasn't for the Kirov class then it's pretty unlikely the Iowas would have come back into operation. To this day, there is nothing that will match the firepower of the Iowa class.
UAL012 2 weeks ago
@UAL012 KGV wasn't really a "VERY powerful" ship. Those 14" guns were way to small to make it fully BB vs BB combat worthy. Had it been finished as supposed to be, with 9 15", then I could give it to you that they would have been good ships, but not "VERY powerful". Look at the G3(Essentially a british Iowa planned after WW1) for powerful.
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I agree that the order was a little off with the Bismarck, but personally it a "modern" ship that was defeated by out of date British ships and BIPLANES!!!
Also Not sure why The Yorktown class carrier was not in there considering that the Enterprise is one of the pre-WW2 ships to survive the war.
Finally the Yamato, never one a battle, it was out classed in almost every way by the Iowa class and, the American Navy proved they were better then Japaneese and German navies.
evansc55 2 months ago
Yamato and Bismarck didn't prove itself worthy... especially the cowardly Yamato, the most disgusting ship to ever float. Imagine retreating in the face of such a very tiny fleet of American ships. Yamato is everything the opposite of Japanese bravery. The Bismarck is worthy on its post tho, it faced the might of the British Navy, just like how a brave man should face his death. Bismarck, RIP. Yamato, rest in SHAME!
themangix357 2 months ago
@themangix357 u do realize that the yamato was damaged b4 going into that battle second of all do you know if they where having technical issues? Where u there? Was it already damage? Did it have internal damage? Was it orderd back? once u prove all those questions where no then u can state that the Yamato can rest in shame.
TheTemplarnight 1 month ago
how did the bisbarck get on the list. it was only 1 of 2. hitler sent. 2nd one back to port never to see battle after the bismarch was shamefully sunk by an out of date torpedo plane. Iowa class has seen every war since wwll and is still going hot
rich6421 2 months ago
Interesting fact: the Iowa's guns are theoretically capable of hitting a target farther than the crew can see in perfect conditions.
AviationMaster96 2 months ago
I can understand why this ship got the #1. It has Armour equal to that of the Yamato but it is faster and with a modern flare added to it with Tomahawk missiles and serving for so long as a Battle ship, it had to get the top spot.
1169Timothy 2 months ago
@1169Timothy
Agreed. And of course the significance of the role it played in WWII. The ultimate utility ship.
at1212b 2 months ago
@at1212b I mean, its must be a damn good ship if every time they need a role filled in a naval conflict that needs to be filled reliably they take it out of storage.
1169Timothy 2 months ago
@1169Timothy It didn't really have armour equal to the Yamato. The Japanese 18"/45 t94 guns WERE better than the Iowa's 16"/50 Mk7, especially at shorter range. Yamato was armored to take her own punch, while Iowa only had armour to protect against the 16"/45 Mk6 of the NoCar and SoDak classes, which wasn't as good as the 16"/50 Mk7 that it carried.
Plus, you can't really compare Iowa to Yamato if you take wodern day equipment into account. Then we can slap tomahawks onto Yamato as well.
Papadragon18 2 hours ago
WHERE IS THE YORKTOWN CLASS (AKA USS ENTERPRISE) best carrier in ww2 recived more than 20 battle stars
pikachu2537208 3 months ago
@pikachu2537208 i agree the Enterprise is the greatest single ship of the US Navy, but this show is about the class, not just one ship.
ShortCardinalsFan262 2 months ago
YAMATO .
TheAeroth 3 months ago
the thing with Yamato is there is no fear factor
ussjohnston1 4 months ago
you can say its american propaganda, in part you are rigth but if you pay attention you will see that the iwoa class last for almost 30 years the yamato and the bismark wore great ships but didnt last long. if you dont have battle experience and live to tell about it you cant say that you wore great at all.
0trivium 4 months ago
@0trivium. Yes the Iowa class have longevity, but it cannot be considered the best because it has not fought any other battleship, so really it has not been tested. Just because this class of battleship has lasted the longest doesn't make it the best. It just means that the American Navy had the foresight to keep their battleships when other nations had dispensed with them or they had been sunk in battle. A shore bombardment vessel does not a great battleship make.
SilentRunning1000 4 months ago
@SilentRunning1000: And what did the Bismarck do? Sink the Hood?
There is some question to that and even still, that was a "1 in a million shot"
As for the Yamato, check out her poor performance of her gunnery during the Battle of Taffy 3 at the Battle Off Samar. The Yamato alone weighed more than all the US ships yet when it was all over, the US held the sea and it was the Yamato, Nagato and the IJN Center Force that left.
Technically speaking, no carrier sunk a thing, it was their planes
sol3a1 3 months ago
@0trivium
Your Iowa would disable too if it's port rudder would be hit with a one in a million torpedo strike.
Then being attacked by 3 battleships, 4 cruisers and 7 destroyers.
T4mp10 4 months ago
@T4mp10: Seems that there were many "1 in a million" shots that took out the rudders of German ships in WW2. When does it become a "design flaw" and not a "1 in a million" shot?
Bismarck was an enlarged Scharnhorst and had a some of her machinery above the main belt. Yeah her belt was awesome but she was mission killed pretty quickly.
Iowa was faster, better FC, Radar, DC was the best and more. Give Bismarck the same radar and FC of the '44 Tripitz, Iowa, NC and SD classes FCS win hands down
sol3a1 3 months ago
@0trivium
Also Yamato did last in the sea for almost 5 years, but of course the country's ships will be sank that loses.
T4mp10 4 months ago
These ships are not categorized only by Firepower and armor but on efficiency too ... of course Yamato and modern ships could been better to Iowas but , the yamato never lived on to earn the first place and Modern ships do not have yet served long time or fought any tough battles ... so the Iowas rightfully earn the first place after 50 years of service .
ACEGR1 4 months ago
BISMARK ON 7?! U KIDDING?!?!
killerpups17 4 months ago
Why is there so much WW2 junk, where are the modern ships like the Visby or Absalon.
SwissLeo1 4 months ago
could you please upload Top Ten Fighter Planes series. Would be nice:)
TurkishAirForcePilot 4 months ago
You know what? Screw this. I've been trying to make people realize Iowa is superior to Yamato, but that won't work, becouse of the mentality "BIG IZ BEST!". Now, could someone tell me WHY Yamato is better than Iowa?
And you know what ship should be No. 1? The HMS Dreadnought, or the USS Monitor. Or maybe the Swedish Halland class destroyer, being the first ship to carry an operatable SSM. THAT is an achievement.
But Iowa is also worthy.
Papadragon18 5 months ago in playlist Liked
@Papadragon18 Yamato did have one advantage and one only...it's 18 inch rounds could travel about 2 miles farther than Iowa's. HOWEVER, Iowa was faster...fast enough to be in another spot by the time the Yamato's rounds came in. Iowa's radar guns were superior. And, Yamato had some fire control issues. Who would of won? Who knows?
And battleships were very important despite what some here are saying. They pounded Islands and changed battles. Hell, they made a Normandy landing possible.
calimar28 5 months ago 2
@calimar28 On the other hand, Yamato's FC was so bad you would have to count with an area of error of a couple of miles... Closer than the horizon Yamato's Optical FC would have beaten Iowa(maybe), but why would Iowa get so close?
But anyway, thanks for providing an answer that at least holds some truth in it, despite the japs not being able to use that advantage.
And I've never claimed that BBs were without use... I agree with your statement of BB importance.
Papadragon18 5 months ago
@calimar28 You make a good point about battleships and shore bombardment. But nothing they did changed the war as much as the carriers and subs. Battleships were created to fight in decisive sea battles, and with but a handful of exceptions, that never happened. If not for the carriers owning the seas, the battleships would not have been able to performs that shore bombardment.
Elthenar 5 months ago
yamato at least it should appear in the top 10
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discovery110 5 months ago
Neither the Yamato or Bismark were as good as an Iowa class. The had some size advantages but the Iowa's were faster and had FAR superior radar guidance for their guns. Essentially an Iowa could stay out of the effective range of one of those ships and still land accurate fire.
Truthfully though, no battleship should be on this list. No ship influenced war and politics more in the 20th century than carriers and submarines. But if a battleship was going to be on this list, it would be an Iowa.
Elthenar 6 months ago 4
@Elthenar Yamato? The largest and powerful battleship ever made?
This is partial and not realistic.
Say what you say to me yamato is far superior to Iowa. Except for have a reduce service in combat . But in combat, yamato wins. but sure, for americans is diferent.
yamato at least it should appear in the top 10
discovery110 5 months ago
@discovery110 As I said, I don't really think ANY battleship should appear in the top 10. Battleships really didn't do much. But if they had to have 1, it should be an Iowa. Largest does not equal more powerful.The Iowa's were a good bit faster than the Yamato's, due to better radar guidance they were accurate to a greater range. The Yamato was known to have several faults with it's armor.Also, the Iowa had superior AA and it's advanced shells gave it roughly the same armor pen as the 18 inchers
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@discovery110 As I said,I don't really think ANY battleship should appear in the top 10. Battleships really didn't do much. But if they had to have 1, it should be an Iowa. Largest does not equal more powerful.The Iowa's were a good bit faster than the Yamato's, due to better radar guidance they were accurate to a greater range. The Yamato was known to have several faults with it's armor.Also, the Iowa had superior AA and it's advanced shells gave it roughly the same armor pen as the 18 inchers
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Papadragon18 6 months ago
Assuming a good captain, I would have loved to serve on an IOWA class battleship.
PotatoGunsRule 6 months ago
I am LOLing at all these Haters that are pissed that the Iowas are number 1. Heres some questions name another ship from ww2 that can still fight modern ships and win.......only 1 the Iowas. Yamato vs Iowa both had similar range, similar shell damage possibilities, but iowas had better aiming and could put shells on target faster and alo they were way more efficent.
DSMeclipsegst 6 months ago
Its silly that in all American programs, American military equipment (from WW2) is first on a list.
MichalKM4 6 months ago
WHERE IS THE YAMATO? Think it's better than Iowa, even if it was not the best where is it?Simply yamato could destroy any of the other battleships that appear in this video!
euskalthrasher 6 months ago
Yamato class were good but only two ships built. Iowa's weren't bad , but as a single ship Yamato's would be better than Iowa's :)
But both were quiet nice ;)
RobinsMind 6 months ago
@RobinsMind 3 yamatos where built, 2 where superbattleships and the other a superaircraft carrier.Yamato was the largest, best armed, had more armor, and when the 2 battleships were destroyed each of them suffered so much damage to sink 4-5 iowa class ships
euskalthrasher 6 months ago
yamato and its sister ship musashi had such very poor track records in ww2.
they were destroyed and sunk by enemy fire.
the german graf spee was better i think because though it faced overwhelmong odds in the battle of rio plata it was never sunk. in the end she was scuttled, not sunk.
roycosing 7 months ago
@shakeri84 what would be your top 3 fighting ships then
labartic 7 months ago
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@shakeri84 "an american tv channel placing a american fighting ship as number! what a suprise" heard that before but it was this same channel that said the Soviet T34 was the best tank in WW2, and this 'Merican agrees with that
Just because it is a US station and a US ship was declared #1, look at the other military things the US did not win
sol3a1 7 months ago
They've GOT to be kidding !! The Iowa Class were the BEST battleships ever built, to be sure. BUT - battleships per se were ALREADY technically + operationally OBSOLETE by 1941 .. therefore they CANNOT possibly be classed as No.1. The AIRCRAFT CARRIER is the best naval weapon of all time, simply for the POWER + ENEMY DAMAGE it could project afar. Nimitz Class Carriers come First; Essex Class Carriers come in Second. Forrestals come in Third. The Iowa Class Battleship .. at best, maybe No. 5
colindominy 7 months ago
@colindominy - Length of service I think is what they're looking at and the fact is they can be put back in service again. When you couple their Iowas' armor (which one only needs a broom and paint to clean up the mess from most anti-ship weapons today) and the nuke tipped Cruise missiles and good old fashioned, "pounding by 16" 2700lbs super heavies", they are a great ship
Problem is that they are hard to produce and very crew heavy
sol3a1 7 months ago
@sol3a1 : Fair enough ! I can see your point, and I appreciate & respect it, friend.
colindominy 7 months ago
@colindominy I guess it depends on how you look at it. If you place a Nimitz Class carrier and a reconditioned Iowa class 20 miles apart and suddenly called all hands to battle stations, I think the carrier would only get a couple of aircraft launched before the flight deck was rendered useless, and those aircraft would have a hard time with the newer anti aircraft weaponry from the battleship. (I guess I have a soft spot for the old battleships) Greetings from Wisconsin, USA.
Jackle61 7 months ago
@ameech1 the iowas were better, they were in more wars than Yamato. And Yamato even ran away from just a few US destroyers in WWII.
Untchabll 7 months ago
krieg ich das kotzen be iowa.. war klar :)
Kampfdaemon 7 months ago
WHERE IS THE YAMATO, THAT WAS BETTER THAN THE IOWA's
ameech1 7 months ago 15
@ameech1 - The Yamato was not better than the Iowa. While the Yamato had thicker armor and 18.1" guns, that meant squat if you couldn't hit your opponent. The Iowa outmatched the Yamato on several factors none were sexy but all mattered more than the "biggest" and "thickest". The Iowa was better in:
Damage Control
Radar
Fire Control
Speed
Rate of Fire
Plunging Fire
Secondaries
Besides thick armor and big guns, what did the Yamato bring to the table?
The Iowa was a far, far better ship
sol3a1 7 months ago
@ameech1 you can't expect a us show to rank a non-us ship as nr.1
heisldepp 7 months ago
@heisldepp - If an American said that about a European, they'd be labeled a bigot, "typical idiot Fox News fed moron" and such
So is the same true for an Austrian?
Your accusation is 100% wrong as this "US tv show" has the Soviet T-34 as the top tank. There's goes your fine example of pseudo European intellectual and moral superiority
sol3a1 7 months ago
@sol3a1 well sorry, maybe I was to quick to judge the show, but it's just interesting to see 6 of top 8 listed ships are from us. if they list ticonderoga they could have also listed norwegian skjold or swedish visby-stealth ships. or soviet typhoon subs
haven't seen the other shows so far, but this one seemed a little unbalanced to me
heisldepp 7 months ago
@heisldepp - In my best Deutsch, "Es ist alles gut"- I can understand. What might be the issue is that the US, and only the US in WW2 could take time to study what worked, what didn't and plan for it
With the US safe from bombing, no air raid drills, no threat of armies marching over the hills, the US was safe to build and test
After all, there must be some damn benefit that we're spending ourselves into oblivion with military spending that is approaching $1 Trillion a year
sol3a1 7 months ago
@heisldepp - please write back in Deutsch. It's been too long that I had a conversation and I'm losing it
sol3a1 7 months ago
@ameech1
"Where is the Yamato"? It's on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean... with her sister ship the Musashi.
357223308 7 months ago
@ameech1 Nope, the yamato was bigger, but not better.
ComputerGeek1999 7 months ago
@ameech1 well the 2 Yamato class ships are at the bottem of the sea..the 4 Iowas are in mothballs or Museums...exactly who is better? the ones that lived
RJF1966 7 months ago
@RJF1966 @HaywardSouth
Too bad the Montana class battleship was canceled. 12x 16" guns, 20x 5" guns.
NatedogJr 6 months ago
@NatedogJr it was a paper tiger after ww2
RJF1966 6 months ago
@ameech1 Where's the Yamato? On the bottom of the ocean. You will not find one Iowa class on the sea floor. Get over it.
HaywardSouth 7 months ago
@HaywardSouth Hahahahhahhahahahahah good one mate.
Cardinals525 6 months ago
@ameech1
Truth
hotbeli 6 months ago
@ameech1 even the Bismarck was better than them but that typicallly American propaganda shit.
FrancisJoa 6 months ago 11
@FrancisJoa LOL moron the Bismarck sucked the Iowas could send shells further hit harder and could take hits oh and last longer than any other ship.
DSMeclipsegst 6 months ago
@FrancisJoa jajajajajajajajajjaja Bismark better than Iowa??? yes... sure!!!
DNRaper 3 months ago
@DNRaper Then answer my question, why should the allies fear the Bismarck if it wasn´t the best ship in that time. Even the host of this video said, that this ship brought fear everywhere it went.
FrancisJoa 3 months ago
@FrancisJoa my answer by private and in spanish...
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sargon08 3 months ago
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@FrancisJoa : lets talk !!
Bismarck guns 8 × (15 in) V.S Iowa guns 9 × 16-inch
Bismarck speed 30.01 knots V.S Iowa speed 35 knots
Bismarck Armor Turrets: 360 mm (14 in) Main deck: 100 to 120 mm v.s Iowa Armor Turrets: 19.7 in (500 mm) Decks: 7.5 in (190 mm)[
So how can less and smaller and slower with less Armor be better then Iowa ?? you know what its NAZI propaganda shit !!!
sargon08 3 months ago
@FrancisJoa: Nope the Bismarck was only dangerous because the Brits were over extended. Between U-Boats and a commerce raider in an area where there were few places to defend them would have meant taking assets from other areas to defend not only from U-Boats the Bismarck and Tripitz would have been a logistical nightmare.
DDs were great against subs but against subs and a BB, they lose.
So why do you think the Bismarck would be better than the Iowas?
sol3a1 3 months ago
@FrancisJoa: No way. The Bismarck was an enlarged Scharnhorst with all the problems of that WW 1 design and his hydraulics above his main belt
The Bismarck, as well as several other German ships of WW2 all seemed to have a rudder issue, aka Bismarck was not the 1st, 2nd or even 3rd German ship that "developed rudder" issues in combat
What I'm saying is it had a serious design flaw
sol3a1 3 months ago
@FrancisJoa The Bismarck is at the bottom of the sea. The Iowa class's four ships all survived 50 years.
evansc55 2 months ago
@FrancisJoa
Whatever stupid Nazi propaganda. Go Fuck Hitler in Hell!
SilentEagles 1 month ago
@ameech1 Well... problem with Yamato is that it's Aiming System was well... bad compared to the Iowa's not to mention the Iowa's shell's are as good as the Yamato's 18" shells... so I say this ranking was perfectly justified...
mugenjohncel 6 months ago
@mugenjohncel Iowa's shells were NEARLY as good as Yamato's, and only on long range... if closer than horizon(about 20 km), where Yamato could use her optic FC, and Iowa wouldn't have the range advantage, Yamato would probably smash her to smithereens, as her shells were as effective in short as well as long range.
But, the Iowa would evade such combat at that range. Iowa is overall the superior ship(except in short range), but I think HMS Dreadnought deserves the No.1 spot better than Iowa.
Papadragon18 6 months ago
@ameech1 it got sunk unlike the Iowa. Iowa Class > Yamato Class
DSMeclipsegst 6 months ago
@ameech1 I agree but the Yamato did not have a lot of combat experience, they had a short service length, for some reason in the Battle of Leyte and Operation Ten-Go, they were only in the background and there was only 3 of them.
... but yes I believe if there was an 11 on this list, the Yamato should be there.
e0o9kii 6 months ago
@ameech1 Well... since they use "service lenght" as factor and they bombed every supership (Bismarck, Yamato) they can as fast as they can (understandable).... no chance for any of these (build by the americas enemies) to get high in the rating.
Tholdrinn 6 months ago
@ameech1 The Yamato is on the bottom of the see with half the rang of an Iowa, 2/3 the speed and obviously short combat record. We will never know the accuracy details and they were both about equal in armoment for opposing shells. The Bismark is very light armor compared to both ships. Also smaller main guns.
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@ameech1 Answer: PROPAGANDA!
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sol3a1 3 months ago
People jeep saying the German ships were the best and they had all the best stuff then why did they lose lol same thing when people say the US sucks but yet they are the worlds strongest super power lol people on YouTube are idiots! From Britain.
ak907jk 7 months ago
The Yamato isn't on the list because it didn't do jack shit except get sunk. It may have had a longer range, but Japanese optics were horrible. There's a difference between "maximum range" and actual accuracy, which the US ships were much better at. Some people like to comment because they have a Yamato/Bismarck hard on and don't look at any of the technology behind the ships. I mean damn! The Yamato retreated from Taffy 3 at Leyte, what the hell? lol
raptor43321 7 months ago
I agree on Iowa class it is one hell of a ship
but to rate Queen Elizabeth class ahead of Bismarck class... what a total joke
yeah of course american journalist must rate the ship of his allies ahead of the enemy ship..
Spionsilver 7 months ago
USS MISSOURI is very good , HMS HOOD is big but not very good because conception default
eefred59 7 months ago
BISMARK is the best
eefred59 7 months ago
missing all Sub and Japanese warship?
boomer like the Typhoon will wipe out a civilisation that it doesn't matter if the enemy fleet remains... =P
akinkhoo 7 months ago
where the fuck is IJN yamato? another retarded propaganda from history channel i see. this channel can lick my balls. it makes it obvious that it works for the CIA. btw USS iowa sucks arsehole. 11" armor? that ship would be easily sunk by a few dive bombers, infact a single 250KG bomb from a D3A val sunk the "mighty" USS arizona. iowa would most likely have the same fatal end. bismarck can sink it single handedly. iowa has a tight firing ark for its secondaries aswell.
knight0Farabia07 7 months ago
@knight0Farabia07 The three bombs that hit the Arizona were converted 16in armor piercing shells that weighed 2100 pounds. One glanced off the armor covered third turret, one failed to penetrate the main armored deck and one exploded in the bow setting off gasoline and black powered intended for the catapult that had previously been mounted on #2 turret, which then set off the forward magazine. The Iowa class has vertical armor equivalent to 16in and main deck armor of 6.5 and 3 in.
Bullettube 7 months ago
@knight0Farabia07 The Japanese battleships were sunk by bombs and torpedoes delivered by American planes. The Bismark had 15in guns firing a shell that weighed 1950 pounds and would not have penetrated the armor of ANY American battleship. The Iowa, South Dakota, Washington and Colorado class battleships all had 16in guns capable of firing shells that weighed 2350 pounds to 2750 pounds and all capable of hitting and sinking the Bismark from a great distance. That's the facts jack.
Bullettube 7 months ago
@Bullettube 1 bismarck had the best radar and the best optics in the world for slugging it out with battleships
2 the amerikan battleships were sunk by bombs and torpedoes in pearl harbor too
3 the USS washington fired 117 16" shells and 522 5" shells against IJN kirishima. only 20 hits? you call that accuracy?
knight0Farabia07 7 months ago
@knight0Farabia07 Thats typical american patriotism ^^ americas warmaschines are the best in the world in all time :D
Thissuxxxfull 7 months ago
@Thissuxxxfull amerikan warmachines are the best of all time? riiiight if they faced amerika or japan 1 on 1 they'd face a massive defeat, the german war machine was the best, best tanks best airforce best submarines best ground forces best generals. amerika? they recruit monkeys for their army. their tanks? those shitty M4s wont scratch a PZIV. their airforce? those P51s are old crappy junk, no match for modern fighters like the FW190 or the BF109G or the ME262
knight0Farabia07 7 months ago
@knight0Farabia07 Thats right. the german war machine was the best, best tanks best airforce best submarines...it WAS the best...its a long time ago... now the germans are a shodow of himself....boring
Thissuxxxfull 7 months ago
@Bullettube spoils of war is another word for steal ^^
Thissuxxxfull 7 months ago
BismarCk btw.
Thissuxxxfull 7 months ago
Lawl...crap ranking. America with his stolen technics from german top engineers after ww2. After ww2 the germans would not allow to have battleships, submarines and all of this shit. The bismark is ranked on 7th? lol
the entire fleet has hunted the bismark...1vs1>>> this battleship would swimm today on earth wonderfull oceans ;) This wunderfull engineers work deserved rank 2 or 1...bismark is a legend and needs a lift. Look @ the bismark today. she looks like a fresh ship ;) rust?? no! :)
Thissuxxxfull 7 months ago
@Thissuxxxfull The Bismark is sitting 2 miles down on the ocean bottom and will eventually rust away, just give it another 50 years. Missing from the wreck is it's stern section, it seems the German engineers stopped being wonderful when they got that far aft. America didn't steal anything from the Germans, they helped defeat Germany so they got the spoils.
Bullettube 7 months ago
I would have made the German U-boats as number two for almost bringing England to her knees and the American subs at number one for actually bringing Japan to her knees and sinking more Japanese merchantmen and warships then all the other allied warships and aircraft combined! BTW-the American Cleveland class light cruisers (most numerous hull class) and the British "Flower" class corvettes ( and American DEs) did a hell of a job in WW2 as well!
Bullettube 7 months ago
USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kirbyroxy 7 months ago
They must of forgot Battleship Texas
TexasSniper7 7 months ago
@TexasSniper7 The Texas and the New York were of the same class and they both were used in the two world wars. They introduced several innovative ideas when they were launched and both were considered quite fast and well armed at the time. Their sister ship, the USS Utah still lies in the mud at Pearl Harbor.
Bullettube 7 months ago
Forgetting about Yamato.
EminidisMike 8 months ago
@EminidisMike i thought the same
deltaD07 8 months ago
@EminidisMike Good idea, lets forget about the biggest mistake Japan could have built in 1941.
Bullettube 7 months ago
@Bullettube Whether it was a mistake or not, it was still the biggest and most powerful battleship of the time and it should be put in this list. Following your logic Bismark was also the biggest mistake Germany could have build back in 1940.
EminidisMike 7 months ago
@EminidisMike Yup. Germany could have built 100 more U-Boats with the material it took to build the battleships and finished the aircraft carrier they had laid down. Being the biggest battleship is cause for temporary bragging rights only, since bigger and better ships were already being built in America and Japan.
Bullettube 7 months ago
I just dont see why this ship made it to #1 the carriers of WWII have more to show than any other ship in the world they did more to the war effort than any othership in history
Cantankerous65 8 months ago
Why dont they just put the Bismarck in first place?
lawker777 8 months ago
@lawker777 Because it was snuffed so quickly.
EmperorHelix 7 months ago
@EmperorHelix I was just being sarcastic. surely arleigh burke, ticonderoga, and kirov woul be first. Iowo should not be first, but rather 3rd or 4th. its like putting the spitefire first if u were comparing planes.
lawker777 7 months ago
I'd like to see an Iwoa class take on a Nimitz class carrier...
CanadaJarod 8 months ago
@CanadaJarod well if the BB can come in range of the nimitz class, the carrier goes down, only prob is that the range of the nimitz class is far greater the the BB
TheGnue 8 months ago
Chuck Norris yacht :D
Ctasker5 8 months ago
its not the ships its the crew . god bless senior service , hearts of oak every one !
dave2806 8 months ago
@dave2806 I'm pretty sure it's a mixture of the two.
tryithere 8 months ago
LOL,they made it to no.1 just to "surprise" people, everybody knows that Nimitz class it's just unbeatable.
ComandanteJ 8 months ago
@ComandanteJ Except one shell hit from a battleship would make it a sitting duck. True, getting that shot in would be difficult but take away it's flight deck and you have Japan's Midway.
tryithere 8 months ago
these guys are getting payed to make the american ships look good
Zman958 8 months ago
Where is the Battlestar and Basestar?
alexhanshu 8 months ago
yes yes, yamato was better, however by 1940 it was useless unless properly air cover. stupid classification
ionivus 8 months ago
@ionivus Yamato didn't have near the accuracy in the main guns as the Iowa class ships had although Yamato had bigger main guns.
tryithere 8 months ago
yes yes, yamato was better, however by 1940 it was useless unless properly air cover. stupid clasisfaction
ionivus 8 months ago
american ship....american programme........ no suprise....
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DNRaper 8 months ago
Amazing that these WWII battleships saw service in the Gulf War. I didnt know that!
ThaFunkster100 8 months ago
How are the ballistic missle nuclear subs of the US and USSR/Russia not number 1 on this list? For that matter, how is a battleship ranked higher than the Nimitz class? Poor list.
EarlofCrawford 8 months ago
number 1 should be the typhoon nuclear submarine just because of the firepower
shammy63 8 months ago
@shammy63 or the SSBN Trident Ohio class, it´s more modern and have 6 ICBMs more than the russian´s Typhoons
DNRaper 8 months ago
@DNRaper but you have to admit the typhoon is just fucking awesome... it is a shame they did not include any russian ships in this vid, but then again it was probably biased. but back to your point, are the SLBM's on the typhoon not more powerful then the american ones?
shammy63 8 months ago
@shammy63 I'm sorry but I understand fighting ships by surface ships, for me not even a carrier should be in this list. I acknowledge that as a minimum, they should be a russian heavy battlecruise missile-launcher Kirov class on this list ... The Russian SLBMs have more power than the Americans SLBMs, but the impact of any of these 2 types of ballistic missiles against the target would result in total destruction of it. In a weapon so powerful, 5 megatons more of power are invaluable for use.
DNRaper 8 months ago
@shammy63 * In a weapon so powerful, 5 megatons more of power aren't invaluable for use. PD: neither of these nuclear submarines took a long great time in service, because the Cold War is over. The Trident-Ohio class are reconverted in SSGN and the Typhoon class are being to scrapped because Russia considered it obsolete with only 5 years older than the the Trident-Ohio class. But the Typhoons are more impressive and bigger than Tident-Ohios, or those russian submarines designed to replace them
DNRaper 8 months ago
this guy is incredibly annoying.
samysasy419 8 months ago
Its the best not to rate them,in the future anything gonna get better,maybe,just show their achievements or battle hornors etc.
snowballsw96 9 months ago
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False. The US has the best weapons because they can spell words like "weapons," "because," and "propoganda" correctly. <- Clearly you cannot. It is "propaganda". With one O.
MicroBalrog 9 months ago
You forgot the little ship that could - HMS Rodney.......
ireload2 9 months ago
total propaganda.
and also graf spee and bismarck are the same class of pocket battleships
paulabo123 9 months ago
@paulabo123 Wrong!!!!
CDMJDMHHC 8 months ago
US has best wepons becus they enslaved their people, who are controlled with lies and propanda!
sscholle333 9 months ago
@sscholle333 False. The US has the best weapons because they can spell words like "weapons," "because," and "propoganda" correctly.
Brassfinz 9 months ago
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Brassfinz 9 months ago
Where is the Kirov?. Admiral Kuznetsov?
Cytacon 9 months ago
@Cytacon Adm Kuzetsov is not a very impressive carrier. Kirov is very impressive. Maybe its not on the list because so few have been made, and its never seen combat.
PurgePhantom 9 months ago
this is so US propoganda. WHERE IS YAMATO? 18 inch guns hello? And anyways yamato was the biggest battleship in the world and was good, but only under japanese hands they failed. not even in the top 10 yamato should be. fletcher shouldn't be #5 who carse about them maybe #10. Queen elizabeth? lmao. those ships blew hard.
TheAce1082 9 months ago
@TheAce1082 The Yamato is not on the list because it never once used its 18 guns on another capitol ship, as it was intended to. Additionally, Japanese naval design lagged behind Allied designs by the end of the war. While the Yamato was without a doubt the largest, the Iowa class battleship would have been an even match in combat.
PurgePhantom 9 months ago
@TheAce1082 the ship class has to actually have a COMBAT or SERVICE RECORD to speak of, both ships being destroyed after a very short and mostly uneventful lifespan, being too fuel hungry to be effective on the vast pacific ocean that they were designed to operate on, and having grossly inferior AA capabilities despite the fact that it was known at the time they were lost that US aircraft was their biggest threat, yeah buddy the yamato class would not have had any business on the list
22steve5150 9 months ago
@TheAce1082
What's the point in having huge guns if you can't hit a thing? IJN Fire control was woeful. No offence but your naval knowledge is downright crap.
HelmutVillam 9 months ago
@HelmutVillam helmut suck my balls i hope u realize that I got a 800 in my SAT World History exam and a 5 on my AP European history exam. Wait ur a fucking rotten toothed brit. Oh ok i'll speak in ur shitty accent for u. I'm smart enough to get into fucking Cambridge so suck my balls. O and btw if u haven't realized this episode is filled with american bullshit. Americans made it so that their ships are rated superior. Why don't u include some japanese ships then u fucking imperialist.
TheAce1082 9 months ago
@TheAce1082
Jesus christ kid you're as gullible as fuck! And a 800 IN SAT! Wow! You really are fantastic.
HelmutVillam 9 months ago