Dogfights: "Sink the Bismarck" 1 of 5

The mighty Bismarck attempts to sneak out into the Atlantic. The pride of the Royal Navy, the Hood, is sunk. Outdated torpedo bombers cripple the Bismarck's steering.
King George VI and Rodney destroy the Bismarck. The Bismarck final sinks after firing scuttling charges

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• atlantic
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• kriegsmarine
• nazi
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[MrDeano324]

@WIZKID8675

No they were not. In early 1941. Yamato was not commissioned. Therefore Bismarck was the largest battleship in the world. Not by length however, as HMS Hood was actually 2 meters longer. She was the largest by width, tonnage, and firepower. Yamato was not commissioned until December 1941...

[MrDeano324]

@101poorly

It was Yamato. Although the Bismark was in service 3 years before Yamato was commissioned. Also the Yamato engaged allied vessels only once before her kamikazi mission. The japs frequently pulled yamato off the frontline during a confrontaition through fear of losing her. Therefore Yamato was larger, but Bismark saw more action. Another point..the British built equal size guns to Yamato on HMS Furious twenty years before ww2. Although the British saw the massive guns as unnecessary.

[JimmyG228]

@garden2010city Read my comment to zigazig1980. I echo what I wrote to him/her at you.

Seriously guys, if you are gunna criticize someone or a group of people, you should at least know what you are talking about. It's like getting mad & criticizing the commander of Pearl Harbor saying you should've known the Japs were coming. You two sound as if you expected people back then to be psychic.

[JimmyG228]

@zigazig1980 You’re greatly overlooking some facts & jumping to a naive conclusion.

1 the Bismarcks displacement was 50,400 tons, thats not how much she weighed.

2 your opinion is based of the benefit of hindsight. In the 1930s when most of Nazi Germany's ships were designed & commissioned, large battleships had over 80 years of battle proven ability to be very effective. The effects of aircraft on large ships was unproven at the time. With the knowledge of the day Germany was wise.

[zigazig1980]

I can't believe the germans could sacrifice so much metal resources during war time into one project, the amount of Tanks, Detroyers weapons, amunition they could have made with the 50.000 tons of Metals and other materials, this had to be Hitler showing the world Germans might because their was no other reason to construct this, it proves he did not know how to utilise his materials, no wonder the germans ran out of well needed materials near the end of the war.

[garden2010city]

Germans were stupid developing battleships.They knew future was aircraft so whats the point to build one big target easy to find and hit?Third Reich could build 20 Leberecht Maas destroyers( turned into AA ships,each had 2,500 tons) or 50 Class VII U-boats (each had 879 tones much better to kill convoys) instead of one big Bismarck that was 50000 tons heavy.I'm not naval engineer so its pure math now.Bismarck and pocket batleships were waisting resources-future were carriers destroyers and subs

[PANZERDRIVER1]

Wounder how many U-Boats the Germans could have made instead of the Bismarck, using the resources that went into its construction to produce more subs for the wolf-packs.

[gruntythe1andonly]

1 Ton? They're practically firing Volkswagens at the Hood!

[speedenforcer918]

@tyme4mike We must first take into consideration if those battleships were even available to intercept Bismarck. But I'm pretty sure they had a few battleships that were free. I do agree that sending out Hood was a foolish decision, but I do hate it that the Brits got hot-headed that a german battleship sank their flagship. It was their choice to send out a warship to battle with another one which had clearly out-classed it, and so they'd payed the price.

Their fault and their loss.

[StartbahnWest]

@notsureyou

That is the question,.

[xAlexTobiasxB]

isn't the Bismarck just about the sexiest battleship ever built? <3 i love the curves and shapes of her body so much and the Baltic camouflage painting is so fu*** badass.