BATTLESHIP MUSASHI

Heres is another lost Battleship Tribute. This one on Yamato's sister ship the mighty Musashi.

This will be the last time I use the Rock Theme for a while or myabe forever because iused it so many times it gets dull after a while. So i ask you all again don't be harsh on me.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• IJN
• Musashi
• Yamato
• Battleship
• Japanese
• navy

[mdenero]

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]

@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]

@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!

[proulxmontpellier]

"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.

[TheVaccumtube]

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.

[sol3a1]

@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

[buzzbox2nd]

awesome battleship

[cageordie]

@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]

@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]

@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.