Yamato and Musashi were beautiful ships, but what a waste in such incompetent hands! Every battle from mid-1942 was a disaster or near-disaster for Japan. All the grandiose strategies, overly complicated maneuvers, and Asian mysticism. And the worship carries on to the ships. In the end warriors win battles, not equipment. A Japanese Admiral wants to "bloom like flowers of death." An American Admiral wants to "find the Japs and kick their teeth in." Who's going to win?
"The US likes to learn lessons the hard way but does learn them. "
That may have been the biggest problem of the Japanese: arrogance. Even when the German had told them that their communications were read in clear by the enemy, they never corrected their cypher. And, much more important, they did not hold human life to be precious enough.
Musashi, the most beautiful Battleship a man has ever built. It is an industrial wonder combined with excuisite sense of Japanese design-beauty, which, culminated to a level of fine art piece. Battleship Musashi... there will be never a same ship to be born again. Rest in peace ye beautiful vessel.
FACE FACTS FOLKS, Read up on earlier battles like SAVO ISLAND,JAVA SEA, and other U.S. NAVAL BLUNDERS....I'm proud to be an AMERICAN and ALL THAT, But earlier battles against the IJN were DISASTERS !!!....PERIOD....U.S. IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIPS-16" INCH GUNS V.S. YAMATO CLASS 18" GUNS....PWNED!!!....And we won't even talk about the MOGAMI CLASS HEAVY CRUISERS(LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE...!!!)
@eihwazrune2000 The Iowa 16 inch had as much armor penetration as the 18 inch of Yamato and the Iowa's had far better accuracy. Yes, the first year up until after G-cannal fighting had several defeats for the U.S. Navy, but after that Japan's navy began to fall apart in different ways. They failed to counter U.S. submarines, they could not replace lost air crews, and lost any technological advantage. Philippines was the end of the IJN.
@eihwazrune2000: Then you do know about Kirashima and her death at the hands of the Washington
As for Yamato's 18.1" vs Iowa's 16" guns, the Mark 13 FCS on the Iowa and her speed means that Iowa controls the range and lobs 16" superheavies on Yamato's deck without Yamato knowing who's shooting or where they are
Hellships: "Men drank their own urine. Sick prisoners were trampled to death or suffocated. Cannibalism as well as vampirism was not unknown. In the case of the 'Oryku Maru', where insane prisoner killed fellow men for their blood, only 271 men survived out of 1619. The experience of one Dutch group was typical: of 1500 men shipped from Java to Rangoon to work on the death railway, 200 died and 450 were unable to walk on arrival." - Forgotten Highlander.
@TastyGenitals And yet their naval forces mostly performed poorly against their Allied opposition. Their carriers were particularly poor and brewed up as soon as the Dauntless bombers got a hold of them.
@graciemaemarie11 Are you a troll? The US battleships were every bit as pretty as Musashi. US and British carriers were way more elegant than the Japanese flat tops, and much better engineered. British carriers suffered hits that would have crippled American carriers but only dented their armored decks, the Japanese carriers were the Ronsons of the sea.
@cageordie USN carriers far more of the air actions since the tiny plane loads were not enough to withstand a full attack....Passive defense is cheaper but all the British ships hit were scrapped....British main deck was the flight deck so was armoured...US main deck was hanger deck so hit on flight deck was a superstruction hit...fixed easily and repaired quickly...British carriers did catch fire and that warped the main rib structure...so post war too expensive to repair....
@crpdst2003 That is as may be, they survived and remained operational. It's funny that you really can make a virtue out of a weakness if you don't pay attention to what really matters. Most WWII gear was scrapped. Indefatigable was hit by a kamikazee attack on 4/1/45 with the loss of 14 and was decomissioned in 1954. She was with Bunker Hill on 5/11/45 when CV-17 was hit by 2 kamikazee with 389 dead/missing and 264 wounded. The end of her war. I think Indefatigable did better of the two.
@crpdst2003 Formidable was also hit by two Kamikazee attacks. On 5/4/45 one punctured the deck at a cost of eight dead, and 47 wounded and eleven aircraft. The deck was leveled with concrete and steel plate and she returned to normal operations by 5pm. On 5/9/45 she was hit again without significant damage. The combination of two 1000Kg bombs off Matapan in 1942 plus these suicide attacks resulted in her being deemed beyond economic repair in 1947. I think her design was vindicated.
@crpdst2003 Most of the difference in air wing was because the USN used a permanent deck park, the RN adopted this in 1943. The disparity was 70/90, not huge. One final thing. Every US aircraft carrier after the Midway class has had an armored flight deck. The US likes to learn lessons the hard way but does learn them.
@graciemaemarie11 The B-29 Super Fortress is not an elegant machine? The P-51 Mustang? The F-4 Corsair? There are more American masterpieces than can be counted, both military and civilian. And of course the Americans know that form follows function, which is why resources were allocated prudently, and the equipment that was produced greatly outperformed the Japanese equivalents. Kind of explains why most of World War II was such a pathetic, unmitigated tragedy for Japan. Dumb-ass!
the ships of the Royal Navy Of Nippon, were the most impressive of the whole war! my respect to all the overlooked mechanics who kept these vessels moving!
Both Yamato and Musashi Were incredible, inspiring battleships. It is almost a shame that neither had the state of the art electronics of the era, as they may Well have been able to fend off their attackers and live to fight on. Such a powerful punch these two sisters of destruction could deliver! After the Battle off Samar, as the surviving American crews drifted in the sea, the Yamato cruised by With her crew manned the rails at attention, and the US creWs Were overwhelmed at the sight.
@Kapindur Both Little Boy and Fat Man were incredible, inspiring bombs. Such a powerful explosion these two brothers of destruction could deliver. People all over the world were overwhelmed at the beauty of the two mushroom clouds.
@Kapindur Real impressive that Yamato was able to impress the survivors of a motley crew of US CVEs and destroyers. The most impressive moment in the history of the Musashi is when she was going down and her captain, seized with the wisdom of his own pending death and the destruction of his nation lamented in the IJN placing so much emphasis on heavily armored big gun ships. And we all know what happened to Yamato. Before she was annihalated how many capital ships did Yamato destroy? None!
Japans biggest mistake was starting the war when they did. Their ships and planes were better than everyone, including Germany, they just didn't have enough built up and their fuel supply was not what it should have been. Would have been interesting if Japan and Germany had delayed about 5 years.
@Vindicator58 If Japan attacked USSR instead of US, they would have more fuel and raw materials than they knew what to do with. Could export those instead of importing.
@DSAHOY LOL! If wishes were horses,beggars would ride! Japanese have honor?Tell that to anyone from Korea, China, Vietnam,the Philippines,et.al. The "honorable Unit 731"? The honorable kidnappers of 200,000 'comfort women' -young girls kidnapped to be gang raped every day until they died of starvation or disease? The honorable soldiers murdered 40,000 Allied POWs? The honorable Admiral Onishi who was ready to sacrafice twenty million Japanese lives to achieve 'victory'?
Both Yamato and Musashi were impressive battleships. To me the Yamato class is the way a battleship should be and look. like. They were truly titans of the sea.
@kentamitchell dude to sink the Mushashi it took 17 AP 1000lbs bombs and 20 torpedoes, to sink the Yamato 300 planes where needed... there is no ship in this days that can survive the half of the damage those 2 Battleship tooked, not even US CVN
@kentamitchell enemy planes froms 70's to present launch misiles from more than 20 miles... if some country could put 300 (top of the art) planes to a single attack against a CVBG ship well, that was the case in the strike on the yamato...
besides im talking about Ship endurance, there is no ship with better structural defense nowadays than US CVN, but they have poor defense compared to a dreadnought ... and yamato Class was what's called "super dreadnought" as IOWA and Bismarck class
@jotabe1984 OK,if youlike how Yamato& Musashilooked at anchor,fine.However,even in '42/'43 there wasa saying amongst J junior Naval officers that Y&M were about as useful as the Pyramids & the Great Wall of China.They absorded lots of punishment, absorbed lots or resources,and were enormous White Elephants. Exactly what was their contribution to the J war effort? 3,000men died on Yamato-they managed to shoot down 10 US planes.
@kentamitchell well, you just can't blaim Yam. desing for the bad decision of kurita's force at samar battle. the point is... Could nowadays a 35.000tn battleship, 50.000tn super battleship or this 70.000 tn monster battleship with AAW missiles, CIWS, ESM, ECM, ASW defenses (and etc. etc. etc) be so easy to sink for a Carrier (for. example De Gaulle) sending (let say) 9 Rafale with nine MM39 ASM Exocet?. can a modern missile penetrate a 3 meters belt armor? or 1.5 meters deck armor?
@jotabe1984 The Yamato Lost almost all mobility in less than 1 hour, after that it was pretty much target practice. IT only managed to shoot down 10 planes.
@AcomsRazor1776 Yamato didn't shot down 10 planes. There was also Cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers all shooting at US planes. Only 4 destroyers (2 heavily damaged) survived.
The Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships Yamato & Musashi were both designed to mutually support each other in a 50 miles radius of action to dominate & control during a surface naval battle & 3 more Yamato Class Battleships would add another 75 miles radius of action to dominate & control during a surface naval battle for a grand total of the combined 5 Yamato Class Battleships mutually supporting each other in a radius of action of 125 miles to dominate & control during a surface naval battle.
impressive navy, too bad the japanese were slow to release the obselessance of the battleship, and the USA raped them by our sheer industrial capacity.
@KingOCleveland lolno... it was when the US got the japanese transmissions to attack midway. thats how the US won. they knew about the attack so they made an ambush. otherwise the japanese would have raped like in pearl harbor.
@KingOCleveland wat r u talking about the japanese already realized that the BBs were no good anymore... Even the great admiral Isuruko Yamamoto said so..... thats why the battle of midway started.... the japanese planned on trapping the Us carriers at midway and destroy them.... but sadly it failed
As almost completely useless as they became they still look AWSOME. The carriers turned the battleships into a joke. These guys poked the wrong bear and got exactly what they asked for.
They must have known the practicality of this ship at the time, knowing that the war would be decided by planes & aircraft carriers, yet they still built it, to me it was to show the world that they could build largest battle ship , look where it got them at the bottom of the ocean, it's a shame that it never really saw any combat, it's an absolutely amazing ship..
@readynow12345 Actually they did not. Sea power was everything prior to WW2, and every military power was trying to build the biggest battleships. Much of it for ego, yes, these battleships rarely fought each other.
Air supremacy emerged during the war, as the Axis used it so effectively at the onset, forcing the Allies to match it. Everyone was designing bigger battleships than Yamato/Musashi prior to air powers' takeover. Prior to that, power, and power's symbol = big boats
Wars were stupid games for human beings, just mostly being used by politicians to use some means to fulfill their political goals in sacrifice of millions of human life. Never to have any wars anymore!! absoulutely useless to get problems solved. Only stupid and idiots like wars because they thought they are heroes at the battlefields.
You're an asshole. As long people hate each other for what ever reason, there will always be war. It's human nature. The glory part only comes afterwards from fools who nerver had to fight. What you want, world peace and an end to all wars, will never happen.
@peacelover828 If there was no governments there would still be war. tribes been fight each other for thousands of years over food, land, resources, women, cattle, or just because they were different. hell, the world could be filled with infinite resources where nothing was scarce and all was free to take as wanted and people would get bored and club each other to death because the world was too boring.
Yes Shinano was going to be a battleship but after the losses of the Imperial japanese navy it was made into a aircraft carrrier never finished they moved it with the workers inside and the submarine akerfish sunk it they didint know that they just sunk the largest aircraft carrier to date,The Us Sub was also sunk
both Yamato and Musashi had 18.1" guns and American battleships had 16" guns. If they had ever dueled, the Americans would have won IF the range had stayed open because their guns had a longer range. If the American battleships had closed the distance, those 18.1" shells would have blown us out of the water in a hurry. They were beautiful ships though.
RIP Musashi and Yamato- you were the best of the best, and never came close to being used to you full potential...what a waste of some of the best warships ever built...
the ijn was truely a fantastic navy. they had many victories in the pacific and the indonesian sea sadly the imperial japanese air force failed them........ viva imperial japan u shall remain alive in the heart of the brave no matter to what country they belong to.
@ninetalis gentleman i have studied the history. why didnt the aircrafts respond well to the american carriers at midway? do aircrafts hit first or the carriers??? u have turned it round man!!! look what happened in saipan 350 japanese plans were destroyed for just 26 us planes and then 7-9 carriers were sunk. the air force not the navy. and japanese piolets only had 3 months training against us piolets having several years training. watch world at war , ull know dont teach me.
Dude the air force was loaded with bombs that where used on land targets, the protocol said that if they had to attack ships that they had to rearm themselves with torpedos what would take an hour to do, the airforce told the commander to attack with what they had at the moment but the commander said no reload them with torpedos, so they stashed all the bombs to the side of the hangar and when the americans attacked them it was all quite simple for them to sink the ships
@musa77751 yes it is a fantastic navy! thats why every ship of theres is on the bottom of the pacific ocean. and alot of our american grand parents or fathers used those jap ships after war for target practice
@Stu44121 yeh really!!!!!!!!!!! go to the beads of okinawa and see ur 30 warships wrecked there. ur govt does not tell the truth the americans had to go through a hell of a time to subdue them...only material saved that is it or the japanese were fighting to the last man and last round....what happened in the intial stages of war eh????????? americans and britons surrendering everywhere. hah.
so sad that such wonderful feats of engineering just got lost at sea and used for war most of its life.. i have to hand it to the Japanese; the sister ships with their 3rd sister the CONVERTED YAMATO CLASS AIRCRAFT CARIER 'SHINANO' were and still are awesome.
The Iowas are NOT copies of the Yamatos (dumbasses)... anyone with a shred of intelligence can see that. Too bad you guys don't actually research you opinions! BTW: if there had ever been an encounter between the IJN Yamato and Iowas, the result would have been the same for the Japanese... our BBs had radar directed fire, they didn''t, AND we screened our ships with Naval Air -- which alone sank both of these BBs.
if YAMATO and MUSASHI were still "alive" they would beat the shit out of the IOWA Class battleship... The IOWA is a copy of the YAMATO and MUSASHI. so sad any douths? go on forum's of ww2 naval warfare and take your conclusions
TheBigfatchuck: Raising the Musashi or Yamato? Sunken war graves are protected, but I presume it would be up to the Japanese people. Nevertheless, after 56 years the ship has deteriorated beyond the point of restoration. Even if she was raised before deterioration set in, there was so much damage from bombs that it would be an unlikely restoration. We'll have to be content with plastic models.
@Cayden1986 Oh well....maybe it'll protect them from being sushi. Good point though...after that, the days of the battleship were over, as it was a sitting duck more or less.
Well... The Musashi and Yamato both had impressive endings, with the musashi taking on more damage than any other battleship, and the Yamato being sendt on a sucide mission and being sunk in the end by a massive explotion. in my opinion, the yamato is slightly preferable, since it was used in the spacebattleship series, and became a symbol of japanese pride and strength.
In my opinion the most impressive ship ever built (and designed), and the most beautiful one. the bismarck is a whole other deal, and i doubt it could not take on nearly as much toredoes and bombs as musashi, whilst the musashi could sink both battleships engaging the bismarck in both events.
@Potatonaught@thekrazeone read it on line some company believe from switzland was going to rais parts of the musashi but i beleive she in few pieces than yamato but they say her magaziine exploded under water un like yamato who exploded above
what a waste of people and assets if you have no protection from above. what you end up with is large elegant targets for for divebombers and torpedo planes. and when those planes have nothing to worry about but the flak a ship can put up , the ship will almost always loose. Beautiful ships though they were built at a time when the role of a major warships was changing rapidly. Fast fleet carriers quickly assumed the role of the gods of the sea over the battleships.
This Jap ship was impressive but like most of the rest of their weapons, it seemed to be weak on the defensive, sturdiness side. Compared to say the German ships that had to be reduced to a flaming hulk before they sank. I heard the counter flooding, fire fighting & watertight integrity of those super battleships were subpar.
@jakefree25 If you look to Bismarck, it received mostly hits above the waterline so she was no longer a fighting force. She was finished off by eiter torpedo's or scuttled by her own crew.
The Musashi and Yamato were attached by aircraft and especially Musashi took a enormous number of both bombs and torpedo's before she sank.
In the atlantic, the war at sea was totally different than in the pacific theatre.
@marcontainer The Yamatos also were 30K tons heavier than the Bismarcks. It is a fact that German ships were well supplied with watertight compartments that were isolated from each other except on the deck level
@jakefree25 The Germans (as with all their war machines) overengineered their ships as well. The Bismarck class ships were formidable ships and well designed. However, German ships were difficult to take out of action since they were veri rigid bus once disabled, usually a few torpedo's would sink them. Looking to many other battleships, many could only take a few torpedo's.
That is remarkable to Musashi, she took 19 (!!!) torpedo hits before she sank.
@marcontainer I read some book about the Yamato written by Jap navy type who complained that she had hull design & metallurgy flaws and the watertight integrity issues between compartments. Though they both managed to absorb a "boat" load of torpedo (small aerial) & bomb hits. However the super carrier Shinano, which had the same hull, was sunk with 6 sub torpedoes
wish there was was more information about the ship and about the battle in which she was sunk what was the design flaw of the yamato class battleship was the AA fire so lousy from the to ships considering 60 plus planes where lost sinking these two but would wonder how the iowa would survive a all out attack getting hit by 20 torpeodes and 18 bombs and 20 nearmisses or 8 hr time
@thekrazeone agree,,, i doubt any ship can take 200+ planes bombing it and like 20+ holes from torps =x .. but.. considering no air cover.. it sucks =[
not too many picture or footage of this ship or information orhow she was attacked and sunk took a bad beating i have read there was design flaw for the yamota class what was it does anyone know.when musashi and yamoto where sunk they had no air cover and us lost maybe 60 planes now was it do to lousy aa fire or what consider what the japanese did to price of whales, repluse. would wonder if the iowa could survive air attack w/out air cover and 20 torpedoed and 18 bombs over 10 hr period
jpkmac05,not trying to insult you but how would you feel if people call you dirty. Please stop using the word Jap as it is an offensive word, if you do not believe check the dictionary.
@Contrajoe@thekrazeone i do believe there is still pictures of YAMATO firing her main batteries at her last battle at aircraft don't beleive the main battries where effetive considering only 30 plus air craft where shot down
Yamato and Musashi were beautiful ships, but what a waste in such incompetent hands! Every battle from mid-1942 was a disaster or near-disaster for Japan. All the grandiose strategies, overly complicated maneuvers, and Asian mysticism. And the worship carries on to the ships. In the end warriors win battles, not equipment. A Japanese Admiral wants to "bloom like flowers of death." An American Admiral wants to "find the Japs and kick their teeth in." Who's going to win?
mdenero 4 weeks ago
"The US likes to learn lessons the hard way but does learn them. "
That may have been the biggest problem of the Japanese: arrogance. Even when the German had told them that their communications were read in clear by the enemy, they never corrected their cypher. And, much more important, they did not hold human life to be precious enough.
proulxmontpellier 1 month ago
Musashi, the most beautiful Battleship a man has ever built. It is an industrial wonder combined with excuisite sense of Japanese design-beauty, which, culminated to a level of fine art piece. Battleship Musashi... there will be never a same ship to be born again. Rest in peace ye beautiful vessel.
TheVaccumtube 1 month ago
awesome battleship
buzzbox2nd 2 months ago
FACE FACTS FOLKS, Read up on earlier battles like SAVO ISLAND,JAVA SEA, and other U.S. NAVAL BLUNDERS....I'm proud to be an AMERICAN and ALL THAT, But earlier battles against the IJN were DISASTERS !!!....PERIOD....U.S. IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIPS-16" INCH GUNS V.S. YAMATO CLASS 18" GUNS....PWNED!!!....And we won't even talk about the MOGAMI CLASS HEAVY CRUISERS(LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE...!!!)
eihwazrune2000 3 months ago
@eihwazrune2000 The Iowa 16 inch had as much armor penetration as the 18 inch of Yamato and the Iowa's had far better accuracy. Yes, the first year up until after G-cannal fighting had several defeats for the U.S. Navy, but after that Japan's navy began to fall apart in different ways. They failed to counter U.S. submarines, they could not replace lost air crews, and lost any technological advantage. Philippines was the end of the IJN.
Shadx27 3 months ago
@eihwazrune2000: Then you do know about Kirashima and her death at the hands of the Washington
As for Yamato's 18.1" vs Iowa's 16" guns, the Mark 13 FCS on the Iowa and her speed means that Iowa controls the range and lobs 16" superheavies on Yamato's deck without Yamato knowing who's shooting or where they are
sol3a1 1 month ago
She is violent and lethal and the same time beatiful
sikais17 3 months ago
Hellships: "Men drank their own urine. Sick prisoners were trampled to death or suffocated. Cannibalism as well as vampirism was not unknown. In the case of the 'Oryku Maru', where insane prisoner killed fellow men for their blood, only 271 men survived out of 1619. The experience of one Dutch group was typical: of 1500 men shipped from Java to Rangoon to work on the death railway, 200 died and 450 were unable to walk on arrival." - Forgotten Highlander.
theexpliotedforlife 4 months ago
Japan should have attacked the Suez rather than Hawaii...
Thegus0 4 months ago
This ship is most beatiful ship
moumou2001 4 months ago
I don't care if Japan lost in the war, I still see them as kings of the sea..
TastyGenitals 4 months ago
@TastyGenitals And yet their naval forces mostly performed poorly against their Allied opposition. Their carriers were particularly poor and brewed up as soon as the Dauntless bombers got a hold of them.
cageordie 4 months ago
BEAUTIFUL SHIP, HOW COME EVERY COUNTRY CAN BUILD ELEGANT MACHINES EXCEPT THE AMERICANS?
graciemaemarie11 4 months ago
@graciemaemarie11 Are you a troll? The US battleships were every bit as pretty as Musashi. US and British carriers were way more elegant than the Japanese flat tops, and much better engineered. British carriers suffered hits that would have crippled American carriers but only dented their armored decks, the Japanese carriers were the Ronsons of the sea.
cageordie 4 months ago
@cageordie USN carriers far more of the air actions since the tiny plane loads were not enough to withstand a full attack....Passive defense is cheaper but all the British ships hit were scrapped....British main deck was the flight deck so was armoured...US main deck was hanger deck so hit on flight deck was a superstruction hit...fixed easily and repaired quickly...British carriers did catch fire and that warped the main rib structure...so post war too expensive to repair....
crpdst2003 2 months ago
@crpdst2003 That is as may be, they survived and remained operational. It's funny that you really can make a virtue out of a weakness if you don't pay attention to what really matters. Most WWII gear was scrapped. Indefatigable was hit by a kamikazee attack on 4/1/45 with the loss of 14 and was decomissioned in 1954. She was with Bunker Hill on 5/11/45 when CV-17 was hit by 2 kamikazee with 389 dead/missing and 264 wounded. The end of her war. I think Indefatigable did better of the two.
cageordie 2 months ago
@crpdst2003 Formidable was also hit by two Kamikazee attacks. On 5/4/45 one punctured the deck at a cost of eight dead, and 47 wounded and eleven aircraft. The deck was leveled with concrete and steel plate and she returned to normal operations by 5pm. On 5/9/45 she was hit again without significant damage. The combination of two 1000Kg bombs off Matapan in 1942 plus these suicide attacks resulted in her being deemed beyond economic repair in 1947. I think her design was vindicated.
cageordie 2 months ago
@crpdst2003 Most of the difference in air wing was because the USN used a permanent deck park, the RN adopted this in 1943. The disparity was 70/90, not huge. One final thing. Every US aircraft carrier after the Midway class has had an armored flight deck. The US likes to learn lessons the hard way but does learn them.
cageordie 2 months ago
@graciemaemarie11 The B-29 Super Fortress is not an elegant machine? The P-51 Mustang? The F-4 Corsair? There are more American masterpieces than can be counted, both military and civilian. And of course the Americans know that form follows function, which is why resources were allocated prudently, and the equipment that was produced greatly outperformed the Japanese equivalents. Kind of explains why most of World War II was such a pathetic, unmitigated tragedy for Japan. Dumb-ass!
mdenero 4 weeks ago
獅子奮迅の戦闘をし、志むなしく露と消えていった将兵の方々に対し、心からの
哀悼と敬意を称します。 [・-・]> ﾋﾞｼｯ
natu3791 4 months ago
what a sexy design
ImperatorAsus 4 months ago
the ships of the Royal Navy Of Nippon, were the most impressive of the whole war! my respect to all the overlooked mechanics who kept these vessels moving!
acerb45666555 5 months ago
這些戰船,應該全部復活,聯合起來對付中國人,共產仆街,軍國&納粹主義萬歲.
kit617566 5 months ago
おお！tetsuoouoka氏ありがとうございます。
何度聞いても素晴らしい曲です。
rateisss 5 months ago
Great video. In remember of a world's heaviest and the most powerful battleship ever build.
m2mihulja 5 months ago
Music is “The Rock - Main Theme”.
You can find youtube.
tetsuoouoka 5 months ago
使われているＢＧＭが知りたいです。
ご存知の方教えてください、お願いします。
rateisss 5 months ago
There are cruise ships that dwarf these vessels in sheer size though.
Jutzujin 5 months ago
FANTASTIC!! THANK YOU FROM JAPAN.
THANKS MADE， GREATED MOVIE.
2010DC65 5 months ago
WOW Japan sure made spectacular battleships in ww2
8000jk 5 months ago
Two the greatest Battleships of human history! What I wont sacrifice to walk their decks in honor!
Manslaughter2000 6 months ago
Both Yamato and Musashi Were incredible, inspiring battleships. It is almost a shame that neither had the state of the art electronics of the era, as they may Well have been able to fend off their attackers and live to fight on. Such a powerful punch these two sisters of destruction could deliver! After the Battle off Samar, as the surviving American crews drifted in the sea, the Yamato cruised by With her crew manned the rails at attention, and the US creWs Were overwhelmed at the sight.
Kapindur 7 months ago
@Kapindur Both Yamato and Musashi turned out to by completely useless dinosaurs. Total waste of money, metal, industrial capacity and human lives.
ssmusic214 7 months ago
@ssmusic214
If u live during that era then u'll know its a worth or not...
Jomokb76 6 months ago
@Jomokb76 Absolutely irrelevant blubber! Read their FACTUAL service records! Total disaster!
ssmusic214 6 months ago
@Kapindur Both Little Boy and Fat Man were incredible, inspiring bombs. Such a powerful explosion these two brothers of destruction could deliver. People all over the world were overwhelmed at the beauty of the two mushroom clouds.
TectonicPower 6 months ago
@TectonicPower YOUR A MUSHROOM
graciemaemarie11 4 months ago
@Kapindur Real impressive that Yamato was able to impress the survivors of a motley crew of US CVEs and destroyers. The most impressive moment in the history of the Musashi is when she was going down and her captain, seized with the wisdom of his own pending death and the destruction of his nation lamented in the IJN placing so much emphasis on heavily armored big gun ships. And we all know what happened to Yamato. Before she was annihalated how many capital ships did Yamato destroy? None!
mdenero 4 weeks ago
japan had ok planes a few shots and boom they went
mike75148 7 months ago
@mike75148 quick they were
lukie117 7 months ago
Japans biggest mistake was starting the war when they did. Their ships and planes were better than everyone, including Germany, they just didn't have enough built up and their fuel supply was not what it should have been. Would have been interesting if Japan and Germany had delayed about 5 years.
Vindicator58 8 months ago
@Vindicator58 If Japan attacked USSR instead of US, they would have more fuel and raw materials than they knew what to do with. Could export those instead of importing.
ssmusic214 6 months ago
Le navi della classe Yamato sono state le più grandi corazzate mai costruite ,furono l'apice della tecnologia navale .
Purtroppo senza una copertura aerea degna di nota , furono affondate
falcoluminoso
falcoluminoso 8 months ago
not to mention de economic advantages of shooting 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 or 18 inch shells instead of missiles for coastal targets
jotabe1984 8 months ago
I wish Japan would have won then america wouldn't have such a big ego.
The Japanese don't have an ego they have honor and would have taken their victory with dignity.
DSAHOY 8 months ago
@DSAHOY LOL! If wishes were horses,beggars would ride! Japanese have honor?Tell that to anyone from Korea, China, Vietnam,the Philippines,et.al. The "honorable Unit 731"? The honorable kidnappers of 200,000 'comfort women' -young girls kidnapped to be gang raped every day until they died of starvation or disease? The honorable soldiers murdered 40,000 Allied POWs? The honorable Admiral Onishi who was ready to sacrafice twenty million Japanese lives to achieve 'victory'?
kentamitchell 8 months ago
Идущие на смерть приветствуют Тебя!
Reas1974 9 months ago
AND DOWN GOES FRAISER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stinkbuggeryou 9 months ago
@stinkbuggeryou Frazier
kentamitchell 8 months ago
大和と武蔵が映ってる写真は貴重
bellet2000 9 months ago
Musashi, what a great name for a ship!
j6cb 9 months ago
Both Yamato and Musashi were impressive battleships. To me the Yamato class is the way a battleship should be and look. like. They were truly titans of the sea.
ISAFACE1 9 months ago
@ISAFACE1 Impressive?The Musashi lasted one day. In April'45 Yamato lasted a few hours.
Titans?More like Goliaths...one sling shot and they're gone.
kentamitchell 9 months ago
@kentamitchell dude to sink the Mushashi it took 17 AP 1000lbs bombs and 20 torpedoes, to sink the Yamato 300 planes where needed... there is no ship in this days that can survive the half of the damage those 2 Battleship tooked, not even US CVN
jotabe1984 8 months ago
@jotabe1984 Enemy planes would not get within 100 miles of a CVN
kentamitchell 8 months ago
@kentamitchell enemy planes froms 70's to present launch misiles from more than 20 miles... if some country could put 300 (top of the art) planes to a single attack against a CVBG ship well, that was the case in the strike on the yamato...
besides im talking about Ship endurance, there is no ship with better structural defense nowadays than US CVN, but they have poor defense compared to a dreadnought ... and yamato Class was what's called "super dreadnought" as IOWA and Bismarck class
jotabe1984 8 months ago
@jotabe1984 OK,if youlike how Yamato& Musashilooked at anchor,fine.However,even in '42/'43 there wasa saying amongst J junior Naval officers that Y&M were about as useful as the Pyramids & the Great Wall of China.They absorded lots of punishment, absorbed lots or resources,and were enormous White Elephants. Exactly what was their contribution to the J war effort? 3,000men died on Yamato-they managed to shoot down 10 US planes.
kentamitchell 8 months ago
@kentamitchell well, you just can't blaim Yam. desing for the bad decision of kurita's force at samar battle. the point is... Could nowadays a 35.000tn battleship, 50.000tn super battleship or this 70.000 tn monster battleship with AAW missiles, CIWS, ESM, ECM, ASW defenses (and etc. etc. etc) be so easy to sink for a Carrier (for. example De Gaulle) sending (let say) 9 Rafale with nine MM39 ASM Exocet?. can a modern missile penetrate a 3 meters belt armor? or 1.5 meters deck armor?
jotabe1984 8 months ago
@jotabe1984 The Yamato Lost almost all mobility in less than 1 hour, after that it was pretty much target practice. IT only managed to shoot down 10 planes.
AcomsRazor1776 6 months ago
@AcomsRazor1776 Yamato didn't shot down 10 planes. There was also Cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers all shooting at US planes. Only 4 destroyers (2 heavily damaged) survived.
ssmusic214 6 months ago
@ISAFACE1 yeah i love the guns set up the hull structure, me and my wife love everything about battleships!!!! expecially the battleships
songoku64 9 months ago
which is better then the Yamato class or the Iowa class ?
ShinigamixXXx 10 months ago
The Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships Yamato & Musashi were both designed to mutually support each other in a 50 miles radius of action to dominate & control during a surface naval battle & 3 more Yamato Class Battleships would add another 75 miles radius of action to dominate & control during a surface naval battle for a grand total of the combined 5 Yamato Class Battleships mutually supporting each other in a radius of action of 125 miles to dominate & control during a surface naval battle.
HAL9000Intelligence 9 months ago
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Halciett 10 months ago
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Halciett 10 months ago
MUSASHI was extreme beautiful!
baron706 10 months ago
It was japanese ability, and it is also ability now.
baron706 10 months ago
realise, not release
KingOCleveland 10 months ago
impressive navy, too bad the japanese were slow to release the obselessance of the battleship, and the USA raped them by our sheer industrial capacity.
KingOCleveland 10 months ago
@KingOCleveland lolno... it was when the US got the japanese transmissions to attack midway. thats how the US won. they knew about the attack so they made an ambush. otherwise the japanese would have raped like in pearl harbor.
aninjainatree 10 months ago
@KingOCleveland wat r u talking about the japanese already realized that the BBs were no good anymore... Even the great admiral Isuruko Yamamoto said so..... thats why the battle of midway started.... the japanese planned on trapping the Us carriers at midway and destroy them.... but sadly it failed
ShinigamixXXx 10 months ago
武蔵や大和の美しい姿として永遠に日本人が語り継がなくてはなりません。
勇敢な潔さは大和魂であり武士道精神の鏡です。
今の日本に一番欠如している精神です。
温故知新、先祖先人の心の故郷である文化や伝統をもう一度尋ねて明日の日本に役立ててほしいと思いますね。
keisuke2925 11 months ago
レイテ突入作戦の際、武蔵は白く目立つ塗装を施して「被害担当艦」となり、その任務を果たした。
cyberterro 11 months ago
That photo at 4:45 is truly remarkable.MUSASHI sinking on an even keel...
Guitfiddlejase 1 year ago
If he walk on the formation with yamato and nagato, the japanese has won the war
TheGordovando 1 year ago
@TheGordovando and then they met up with the tirpitz and l3ismarck.....omg
sheemsheem 1 year ago
@TheGordovando ???????
timpani25 10 months ago
私の友人に第三代艦長 朝倉豊次 のお孫さんがいる。
collonman 1 year ago
I understand in1940s huge battle ship was already obsolate. but MUSASI ・YAMATO and other huge carriers are symbols of our technology and soul.
no1kiyoko 1 year ago
battleships are no longer obsolete. With new tomohawk and heatseeking missles, planes would be no problem. So bring them back!
~An American who respects the awsomness of the Yamato and Musashi~
calimar28 1 year ago
@calimar28 Unfortunately one of few
galloway6204 1 year ago
@calimar28 and remove the guns and replace them with rail guns!!!
Guardsmen248 1 year ago
４６ｃｍ砲の実物大模型を眺めたとき、広大な海に較べれば実にちっぽけな鉄の筒に国家の命運を賭けようという、余りに馬鹿げた、殆ど空想に近い発想に笑ってしまう一方で、これが正確に目標を衝いた時どれだけ大きな破壊力を発揮するか、やはり国家の擁するオソルベキ戦力として評価するのと、相反する想いが交互に浮かんで、困惑した。
大和型戦艦は城の如き堅固な艦橋がメルクマールだが、むしろ艦橋や煙突は非常にコンパクトに纏められて無駄がなく、４６ｃｍ主砲塔がヤケに大きく目だって見える。戦艦とは、艦船である以上に、巨大な要塞砲を敵地の適切な位置まで移送するための運搬船であることが本質である。その実も蓋も無い機能性、美を全く伴わない合目的的性が、大和型戦艦の1/10模型を眺めていると、実に良く分る。
FurutayoshimotoAgon 1 year ago
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FurutayoshimotoAgon 1 year ago
As almost completely useless as they became they still look AWSOME. The carriers turned the battleships into a joke. These guys poked the wrong bear and got exactly what they asked for.
8189michael 1 year ago
Musashi translated..."DoH"
GrizzlySteve 1 year ago
大和級戦艦の2番艦で1番艦大和と違うところは、最上甲板両舷副砲前後の25ミリ3連想機銃の有無、艦橋のラッタル部分と上部部分、それと指令施設が拡大されていて旗艦として大和より適したつくりになっていて、魚雷20本、爆弾17発食らって沈んだ。
TA050105 1 year ago
武蔵 !!!!!!!! Musashi!!!!!!!
juancarlos85i 1 year ago
They must have known the practicality of this ship at the time, knowing that the war would be decided by planes & aircraft carriers, yet they still built it, to me it was to show the world that they could build largest battle ship , look where it got them at the bottom of the ocean, it's a shame that it never really saw any combat, it's an absolutely amazing ship..
readynow12345 1 year ago
@readynow12345 Actually they did not. Sea power was everything prior to WW2, and every military power was trying to build the biggest battleships. Much of it for ego, yes, these battleships rarely fought each other.
Air supremacy emerged during the war, as the Axis used it so effectively at the onset, forcing the Allies to match it. Everyone was designing bigger battleships than Yamato/Musashi prior to air powers' takeover. Prior to that, power, and power's symbol = big boats
PDXCHawk 1 year ago
DIE WITH HONOR!!!!
Neverstop302 1 year ago
a legendary battle between then two naval giants...
stb6688 1 year ago
Wars were stupid games for human beings, just mostly being used by politicians to use some means to fulfill their political goals in sacrifice of millions of human life. Never to have any wars anymore!! absoulutely useless to get problems solved. Only stupid and idiots like wars because they thought they are heroes at the battlefields.
peacelover828 1 year ago
@peacelover828
You're an asshole. As long people hate each other for what ever reason, there will always be war. It's human nature. The glory part only comes afterwards from fools who nerver had to fight. What you want, world peace and an end to all wars, will never happen.
shadowmancer122 1 year ago
@peacelover828 If there was no governments there would still be war. tribes been fight each other for thousands of years over food, land, resources, women, cattle, or just because they were different. hell, the world could be filled with infinite resources where nothing was scarce and all was free to take as wanted and people would get bored and club each other to death because the world was too boring.
nosvaructu 1 year ago
@nosvaructu So true
galloway6204 1 year ago
Yes Shinano was going to be a battleship but after the losses of the Imperial japanese navy it was made into a aircraft carrrier never finished they moved it with the workers inside and the submarine akerfish sunk it they didint know that they just sunk the largest aircraft carrier to date,The Us Sub was also sunk
romulan1961 1 year ago
actually a third keel was laid.was rebuilt as the carrier shinano
stvandy1 1 year ago
few of the pict are actually from the Musashi, most of them are drawings and pict of the Yamato.
rxjimen 1 year ago
both Yamato and Musashi had 18.1" guns and American battleships had 16" guns. If they had ever dueled, the Americans would have won IF the range had stayed open because their guns had a longer range. If the American battleships had closed the distance, those 18.1" shells would have blown us out of the water in a hurry. They were beautiful ships though.
amethyst48 1 year ago
beautiful ships indeed
giovmari 1 year ago
A Japanese pride. A Japanese soul.
ystmshj 1 year ago
good enough
toorutakashimada 1 year ago
They came to late it's was the dawn of aircraft carrier.
Still if they had the air cover maybe they could have been effective.
benitofinito 1 year ago
RIP Musashi and Yamato- you were the best of the best, and never came close to being used to you full potential...what a waste of some of the best warships ever built...
DarkIndustry502 1 year ago
waste of money and lives
bloosey1 1 year ago
bushpopper, man, japanese respect more than anything "all out warfare", surely, thats why the geneva convention is ridiculous to them?
surely?
jonnytightpants 1 year ago
Musashi and Yamato, Two of the baddest mutha's that ever put to sea in the Pacific!!
3shacks1house 1 year ago
@3shacks1house None of those were ever credited with sinking even SINGLE enemy ship and both lasted less than 3 hours in actual battle.
ssmusic214 1 year ago
@ssmusic214 good to see someone who points out how useless they were
suffern63 1 year ago
日本人でも武蔵と大和の見分けが付きません・・・＾＾；
devil7954 1 year ago
Great footage.
Tomyak1 1 year ago
And while all of you are learning history,try learning to spell!
ziggster59 1 year ago
A beautiful piece of naval engineering, but it had to be destroyed just the same.
ThePicklepirate 1 year ago
the ijn was truely a fantastic navy. they had many victories in the pacific and the indonesian sea sadly the imperial japanese air force failed them........ viva imperial japan u shall remain alive in the heart of the brave no matter to what country they belong to.
musa77751 1 year ago
@musa77751
Im sorry, did i read that well?
what, did the japanese airforce lose those carriers at midway or what?!
its because the navy lost all their carriers that air force lost so much power
Learn about history man
ninetalis 1 year ago
@ninetalis gentleman i have studied the history. why didnt the aircrafts respond well to the american carriers at midway? do aircrafts hit first or the carriers??? u have turned it round man!!! look what happened in saipan 350 japanese plans were destroyed for just 26 us planes and then 7-9 carriers were sunk. the air force not the navy. and japanese piolets only had 3 months training against us piolets having several years training. watch world at war , ull know dont teach me.
musa77751 1 year ago
@musa77751
Dude the air force was loaded with bombs that where used on land targets, the protocol said that if they had to attack ships that they had to rearm themselves with torpedos what would take an hour to do, the airforce told the commander to attack with what they had at the moment but the commander said no reload them with torpedos, so they stashed all the bombs to the side of the hangar and when the americans attacked them it was all quite simple for them to sink the ships
ninetalis 1 year ago
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@musa77751
look at generals at war if you don't believe me, You will see
ninetalis 1 year ago
@musa77751 yes it is a fantastic navy! thats why every ship of theres is on the bottom of the pacific ocean. and alot of our american grand parents or fathers used those jap ships after war for target practice
Stu44121 1 year ago
@Stu44121 yeh really!!!!!!!!!!! go to the beads of okinawa and see ur 30 warships wrecked there. ur govt does not tell the truth the americans had to go through a hell of a time to subdue them...only material saved that is it or the japanese were fighting to the last man and last round....what happened in the intial stages of war eh????????? americans and britons surrendering everywhere. hah.
musa77751 1 year ago
@musa77751 Total Losses at Okinawa: US 12,513 killed Japs: 110,000 killed (Plus Estimated 42,000–150,000 civilians killed).
ssmusic214 1 year ago
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japs is the evil,, again the Hroshima ,,, it's the tennoheika 's gift,,, go to the hell jjjaps
panzer1227 1 year ago
hiroshima ,nagasaki is the junk pots ^^
panzer1227 1 year ago
@panzer1227
japanese navy shouldnt fuck with yanks although that was somewhat inevitable.
they r sons of evils who expertise in allout warfare and love to kill infidenl against their cult called democracy. bloody criminals
hope the losses of yankes in Okinawa went to burning hell
bushpopper 1 year ago
Hele mooie muziek.
minkuukel 1 year ago
@minkuukel
alleen spijtig dat nie echt past bij japan é
ninetalis 1 year ago
日本男子の誇りだな。大和、武蔵。
乗組員のご冥福をお祈りします。
UdaEmperor 1 year ago
まるでタライに艦橋が浮いているようだ
LockheedF22Superstar 1 year ago
You know when you sea Japanese military ship and Leyte Gulf together, it isn't gonna end well for the Japs.
tryithere 1 year ago
so sad that such wonderful feats of engineering just got lost at sea and used for war most of its life.. i have to hand it to the Japanese; the sister ships with their 3rd sister the CONVERTED YAMATO CLASS AIRCRAFT CARIER 'SHINANO' were and still are awesome.
meero14 1 year ago
@meero14 and what would they use these "wonderful feats of engineering" for,except war?They're battleships,designed to kill people
suffern63 1 year ago
The Iowas are NOT copies of the Yamatos (dumbasses)... anyone with a shred of intelligence can see that. Too bad you guys don't actually research you opinions! BTW: if there had ever been an encounter between the IJN Yamato and Iowas, the result would have been the same for the Japanese... our BBs had radar directed fire, they didn''t, AND we screened our ships with Naval Air -- which alone sank both of these BBs.
PaulFarace 1 year ago
if YAMATO and MUSASHI were still "alive" they would beat the shit out of the IOWA Class battleship... The IOWA is a copy of the YAMATO and MUSASHI. so sad any douths? go on forum's of ww2 naval warfare and take your conclusions
DoctorDreh1988 1 year ago
@DoctorDreh1988 Read nathan Okun no nutz
327pir 1 year ago
@DoctorDreh1988
Today I would consider these battleships are not worth a dime in Naval warfare.
I bet one of this huge warships will be easy prey for several Silkworm missels fired from a cheap Chinese fast missle boat!
vnck25 1 year ago
@DoctorDreh1988 Yeah , the siphon effect on their way down would have created havoc on the paint jobs of the Iowa class Battleships.
tryithere 1 year ago
TheBigfatchuck: Raising the Musashi or Yamato? Sunken war graves are protected, but I presume it would be up to the Japanese people. Nevertheless, after 56 years the ship has deteriorated beyond the point of restoration. Even if she was raised before deterioration set in, there was so much damage from bombs that it would be an unlikely restoration. We'll have to be content with plastic models.
JBC814 1 year ago
One of THE most BEAUTIFUL vessels afloat in human history!!!!
Pity she didn`t sink a lot of yankee piece of crap vessels!!!!
Long live JAPAN!!!
May the U.S.A. be flushed down the toilet of human history!!!!
Certainly, they stink as much!!!!
motionboy356 1 year ago
@motionboy356 Fuck you bitch mouth. Nippon is now our vassal
327pir 1 year ago
@motionboy356
Which was once a floating junkyard, it is now stinking up the seabed and is home to probably over a million fish.
Cayden1986 1 year ago
@Cayden1986 Oh well....maybe it'll protect them from being sushi. Good point though...after that, the days of the battleship were over, as it was a sitting duck more or less.
motionboy356 1 year ago
@motionboy356 これら Jap 軍艦として潜水艦を設計されていない、すべて彼らとして働いたのため、彼らを下をひどくしている今も悪い
tryithere 1 year ago
Motherfukers that sunked these beautiful ships. BattleShips will forever live, in real life and in people's dream's.
DoctorDreh1988 1 year ago
@DoctorDreh1988 amen!!!! BANZAI!!!!!
motionboy356 1 year ago
love the pipes
jhertz89 1 year ago
you spelled mussashi wrong
lenythousand123 1 year ago
Well... The Musashi and Yamato both had impressive endings, with the musashi taking on more damage than any other battleship, and the Yamato being sendt on a sucide mission and being sunk in the end by a massive explotion. in my opinion, the yamato is slightly preferable, since it was used in the spacebattleship series, and became a symbol of japanese pride and strength.
Roby456mm 1 year ago
@Roby456mm Bull shit
327pir 1 year ago
Musashi
Sort: Yamato Class
Turrents:3
Barrels:3x3
Sunken By: US Air Force
Sister Ship: Yamato
superpim100 1 year ago
@superpim100 Wrong again US airforce did not send ina single plane all naval Aviation.
327pir 1 year ago
@327pir you are correct the Musashi was sunk by carrier aricraft.
TheBigfatchuck 1 year ago
@327pir Althoough I don't know why you bullshitted Roby456mm
TheBigfatchuck 1 year ago
In my opinion the most impressive ship ever built (and designed), and the most beautiful one. the bismarck is a whole other deal, and i doubt it could not take on nearly as much toredoes and bombs as musashi, whilst the musashi could sink both battleships engaging the bismarck in both events.
Roby456mm 1 year ago
@Roby456mm. Do you think the Musashi is a more impressive ship than the Yamato? I think Musashi is slightly better looking than Yamato.
GravyPipeline 1 year ago
Is it true the Japanese are planning to resurface musashi?
Potatonaught 1 year ago
@Potatonaught @thekrazeone read it on line some company believe from switzland was going to rais parts of the musashi but i beleive she in few pieces than yamato but they say her magaziine exploded under water un like yamato who exploded above
thekrazeone 1 year ago
@Potatonaught How can you raise a war grave? I thought that was internationally protected.
TheBigfatchuck 1 year ago
@Potatonaught
No.
Cayden1986 1 year ago
one of those cannons being shot could knock u over!
GameCrazy215 1 year ago
what a waste of people and assets if you have no protection from above. what you end up with is large elegant targets for for divebombers and torpedo planes. and when those planes have nothing to worry about but the flak a ship can put up , the ship will almost always loose. Beautiful ships though they were built at a time when the role of a major warships was changing rapidly. Fast fleet carriers quickly assumed the role of the gods of the sea over the battleships.
atltom58 1 year ago
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thekrazeone 1 year ago
This Jap ship was impressive but like most of the rest of their weapons, it seemed to be weak on the defensive, sturdiness side. Compared to say the German ships that had to be reduced to a flaming hulk before they sank. I heard the counter flooding, fire fighting & watertight integrity of those super battleships were subpar.
jakefree25 1 year ago
@jakefree25 If you look to Bismarck, it received mostly hits above the waterline so she was no longer a fighting force. She was finished off by eiter torpedo's or scuttled by her own crew.
The Musashi and Yamato were attached by aircraft and especially Musashi took a enormous number of both bombs and torpedo's before she sank.
In the atlantic, the war at sea was totally different than in the pacific theatre.
marcontainer 1 year ago
@marcontainer The Yamatos also were 30K tons heavier than the Bismarcks. It is a fact that German ships were well supplied with watertight compartments that were isolated from each other except on the deck level
jakefree25 1 year ago
@jakefree25 The Germans (as with all their war machines) overengineered their ships as well. The Bismarck class ships were formidable ships and well designed. However, German ships were difficult to take out of action since they were veri rigid bus once disabled, usually a few torpedo's would sink them. Looking to many other battleships, many could only take a few torpedo's.
That is remarkable to Musashi, she took 19 (!!!) torpedo hits before she sank.
marcontainer 1 year ago
@marcontainer I read some book about the Yamato written by Jap navy type who complained that she had hull design & metallurgy flaws and the watertight integrity issues between compartments. Though they both managed to absorb a "boat" load of torpedo (small aerial) & bomb hits. However the super carrier Shinano, which had the same hull, was sunk with 6 sub torpedoes
jakefree25 1 year ago
@jakefree25 Shinano´swater-tight doors was open when she was attacked.
MauricioCasteglione 1 year ago
wish there was was more information about the ship and about the battle in which she was sunk what was the design flaw of the yamato class battleship was the AA fire so lousy from the to ships considering 60 plus planes where lost sinking these two but would wonder how the iowa would survive a all out attack getting hit by 20 torpeodes and 18 bombs and 20 nearmisses or 8 hr time
thekrazeone 1 year ago
@thekrazeone agree,,, i doubt any ship can take 200+ planes bombing it and like 20+ holes from torps =x .. but.. considering no air cover.. it sucks =[
hellfire6333 1 year ago
not too many picture or footage of this ship or information orhow she was attacked and sunk took a bad beating i have read there was design flaw for the yamota class what was it does anyone know.when musashi and yamoto where sunk they had no air cover and us lost maybe 60 planes now was it do to lousy aa fire or what consider what the japanese did to price of whales, repluse. would wonder if the iowa could survive air attack w/out air cover and 20 torpedoed and 18 bombs over 10 hr period
thekrazeone 1 year ago
i like US ships but i think that japanise battleships will always have an advantage
warriorxp111 1 year ago
jpkmac05,not trying to insult you but how would you feel if people call you dirty. Please stop using the word Jap as it is an offensive word, if you do not believe check the dictionary.
wakayamakazuyuki 1 year ago
Are there any real photographs of either Yamato or Musashi firing the 18.1" guns?
Contrajoe 1 year ago
@Contrajoe @thekrazeone i do believe there is still pictures of YAMATO firing her main batteries at her last battle at aircraft don't beleive the main battries where effetive considering only 30 plus air craft where shot down
thekrazeone 1 year ago