The US Battleship with the Most Jaw-Dropping Guns Ever Seen.

[@jamses23]

As a native Idahoan, I am always excited when I can find anything about The Big Spud

[@leftistsarenotpeople]

Ever read about the Shuri line, in particular the Shuri Castle strong point during the Okinawa campaign? Well, during the Naval bombardment most ALL the newer 'Fast' battleships with those 'super uber' 16 inch guns and those earth moving super heavy shells they used pounded and pounded and pounded that defensive line for weeks and never could quite reduce the Castle strong point. Welllllll, out of any better more 'modern' ideas.... in they called 'The Big Spud', not expecting her smaller 14 inchers to do any better, and she absolutely NAILED the Shuri Castle... WITH HER FIRST SALVO.... turning that entire bunker complex to dust! I even hesitate to admit that because my beloved USS North Carolina ( which I grew up very close to in Wilimington, N.C.) was there, took shots at it too and couldn't do anything difinitive against that strong point of note either. Yeah, BIG SPUD put the boots to 'em!

[@joehayward2631]

The old battleship left Long Beach, California, i was so lucky i was Marine Det USS MISSOURI, 1988 to 1990. Our home port with USS NEW JERSEY was LONG BEACH,CALIFORNIA. I think thats pretty cool. When we would go to Pearl Harbor USS MISSOURI and USS NEW JERSEY had a great honor docking at battleship row.

[@RetiredSailor60]

My brother served on USS Missouri during the first Gulf War

[@ruger8412]

The big spud! I like it

[@Bdub1952]

Idaho baby, it ain't just potatoes.

[@micheal49]

Especially those two thousand pound potatoes that fly through the air at 2,300 feet per second, travels about 24 miles, and explodes when it gets there, pretty much shattering everything in an area roughly a hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep. Which, when you think about it, is just a wee bit worse than eating three burritos from Taco Bell. Just saying.

[@MrGaryGG48]

@@micheal49 Now that's funny... and it MUST have been a memorable occasion!!😂🤣

[@ThomasWIck-ms5tj]

My father, Raymond J. Wick, served aboard the Idaho from Jan. 1944 until discharged in the spring of 1946. His battle station was the port 20mm AA guns, a bank of 3 of them. He told me about this attack which was the only time the ship was hit. He also had a book that the crew put together at the end of the war with pictures of the plane being shot down and splashing right off his AA gun mounts. The picture was taken from the USS Texas which was right behind the Idaho. They would eventually enter a floating drydock for repairs and there is a National Geographic article I believe in 1946 that covers that story and shows her in the floating drydock.

[@katherinecooper6159]

Thank you for sharing your story.

[@jerryupp9626]

I extend my reverent respect to your father for his service. I'm 3rd generation military US ARMY VETERAN in my family.

[@bernardvonderheide1268]

They been saying since ww2 that battle ships are no longer of use but they keep bringing them in to do battle 😎

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

If they can be used effectively (vis-à-vis other weapons), then they are NOT obsolete.

[@donholiday4942]

American battleships refitted for modern warfare would be able to carry staggering amount of missiles . Adding one of these ships to each aircraft carrier strike group would be able to carry enough missiles to make projecting power even more meaningful . A battleship like Missouri could carry enough missiles to turn iran into a parking lot .

[@MatchGrade08]

It would not make sense to use the same hulls. They would want to make it more destroyer shaped with flat back to carry more. The idea is great to have armor and hide far off to the side but they would have to make a huge amount of the fancy new armors and we dont really have the steel industry or regular industry working well right now. They have to bring down fosil fuel price for steel or whatever they chose to use. Basically have to mine more if they want any armor at an ok price.

[@Sion_Revan]

HLC: It can fire many much flocks of boat missiles.

[@donholiday4942]

@@MatchGrade08 it makes perfect sense it would be able to carry more missiles than 13 destroyers . Destroyers are thin skins tin cans that are very easy for enemy weapons to penetrate . A single missile from a fighter , or single torpedo from a submarine, or a single sea mine is enough to take a destroyer out of the fight permanently . A battleship doesn't get taken out of the fight so easily . An before you say Arizona . Modern American capital ships are nuclear powered . Nuclear power is much more efficient than coal , oil , or diesel . Any refit of an American battleship would obviously involve nuclear power . and obviously involve removal of the obsolete 16 inch guns . With a modern technology refit a smaller crew would be required to run a battleship today than in the days of world war 1 and world war 2 . With 16 inch guns removed you would not need a huge group of men handing 2000 pound shells and gunpowder bails .

[@istoppedcaring6209]

cheap drones would be even better, launched from tethers they could wreak havoc on any defense system

[@iowa61]

@@MatchGrade08 That is frankly preposterous. One of the things the IOWA class battleships do very well is absorb new systems, weapons and modifications. The dozens of vertical launch cells would be fitted on the existing Tomahawk amored box launcher decks. No additional armor would be required.

[@ScottC-od6fh]

There is no hacking artillery!! Once sent!!

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

It is impossible to jam the guidance systems of unguided artillery shells, because they have NONE.

[@rayaznavorian8708]

Hope to see a video on the USS Massachusetts one day.

[@LittleFarmer14]

Such an awesome ship man, I live right in Rhode Island and I’ve been going to the Massachusetts since I was a little boy. So many veterans, artifacts, and things to see. Unbelievable warships.

[@allanboyer2769]

Twelve 14 inch guns are a lot of firepower, but, then again, so are the nine 16 inch guns of the North Carolina, South Dakota, and Iowa classes.

[@allanboyer2769]

Exactly. Just ask the survivors of IJN Kirishima.

[@Fraser-369]

The USS Texas is the last survivor of the 1910s US Battleships

[@thefluffyone2353]

that is true, and it is the only US naval ship to fight in all 5 Theaters of World War II not to mention the USS Texas literally flooded half of the ship to continue shelling the Germans after D-Day and I believe it was the only ship that was crewed by US Marines

[@Princess_Celestia_]

​@@thefluffyone2353Yeap.

[@allanboyer2769]

I got to see USS Texas a few years ago when she was in Houston getting repairs to her hull from rust and decay. I believe she has been moved since then. Still an impressive ship.

[@bosnmatecaddie]

My father took me and my brother to see the Texas when we were children, living so close, east Houston, it was something he liked to do, playing and running around the ship was fun, little did I know that years later I was join the US Navy and serve my country, she's the last of her kind and I hope she's around for many years to come.

[@Fraser-369]

@@bosnmatecaddie She came out of dry dock about a month ago. Torpedo blisters repaired and major stuff done to her hull. That grand old ship looks good with fresh paint…

[@Quiteclueless]

I’ve always wondered why the Navy didn’t make canister shot for the 16 inch guns. imagine Kamikazes trying to fly through that. 😂

[@Thenotfunnyperson]

The Japanese did.

[@wendielangborders4116]

Beehives

[@Sion_Revan]

Stolen from wiki Sanshikidan (三式弾, "type 3 shell") was a form of ammunition: a World War II-era combined shrapnel and incendiary anti-aircraft round used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The type of layered construction of the warheads were generically referred to as Beehive rounds. The shells were intended to put up a barrage of flame through which any aircraft attempting to attack would have to navigate. However, U.S. pilots considered these shells to be more of a pyrotechnics display than an effective anti-aircraft weapon.

[@Intrepid42643]

Heh

[@walkawayfool]

So ive just come across your channel and have watched a dozen or so videos an still watching as i watch this 1. Love it your narrative/ knowledge and detail is outstanding im subd now the thing that gets me everytime is your intro to each vid no mucking round just straight to its awesome 👍👊

[@DanielGeorge-c7t]

My Dad was on Attu when this operation was taking place. He was part of a top secret radar crew of electricians that were recruited from Bogalusa, Louisiana, trained and transported to Attu. They all said the Tropics would have been a lot easier than the Arctic cold for the Louisiana Boys. He didn’t say much about the war except that small squads of Japanese snipers were dropped off from submarines on a one way trip “kamikaze snipers”. The snipers would target us soldiers while keeping warm around a barrel fire. He said they would be talking and laughing and someone’s head would explode. It was a physiological campaign. Very hard duty never knowing if you were in a snipers sights. He never rested easy until returning home.

[@ronaldcole7415]

“The Big Spud”! Awesome!

[@daystatesniper01]

Not a bad video of brave sailors and a well endowed ship but jaw dropping guns ??? hmmmmm

[@sirmalus5153]

Makes a good title for click bait though.

[@auro1986]

did it have proximity fuses in shells?

[@imnayanger4877]

WOW this battle ship is badass with giant tripple guns and best AA gun 👌🏻🔫🚢

[@kevinquist]

My grandfather fought in the pacific. scarred him for life. "human beings to do NOT do to other human beings what those ****'s did to people". 'they were just awful'. he would never elaborate.

[@BugattiONE666]

Idaho had 14inch guns, why would they be jawdropping when 16inch/45, 16inch/50, and for the Japanese of course 18inch guns exist?

[@haroldchase4120]

Turd horse and Bismarck got smoked by 14 inch guns

[@thefluffyone2353]

yeah, where is the Japanese battleship Yamato at? or the German Bismarck they’re both coral reefs at the bottom of the ocean their 18-inch guns on the Yamato or any other Japanese ship or German ship didn’t do them too well not did it. airplanes took down the battleship Yamato and the Bismarck was shelled continuously by the entire British Navy, and also bombed by the RAF and in the end they waddling their own ship, so it did not fall into enemy. Don’t even get me started on the battleships or for example, USS Texas, which was made prior to World War I and was still one of the most bad ass ships of World War II, it technically wasn’t even a battleship technically what would be considered a super dread and it still kicked everyone’s ass?

[@BugattiONE666]

And is anything either of you have just said supposed to correspond with what I said? I didn't even mention Bismarck, 2 of 3 types I mention were American. From the N-Lina/S-Dskota class and Iowa Class

[@DavidJones-me7yr]

If I'm not mistaken, the Iowa class had 16 inch 55 caliber guns?

[@BugattiONE666]

@@DavidJones-me7yr Your Mistaken

[@Mr-mopar]

I only imagine what a modern battleship would look like..maybe a battery of rail guns with a battery of laser guns..hypersonic missles with som kind of metal storm drone launchers..would be wild to see one laid out with future tech.

[@grugbug4313]

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana,. Neat boat.

[@joeatwood6905]

I have never before heard of this ship being called the "Big Spud." What is the source for this?

[@tobysmith3668]

She's the Idaho..and Idaho sells Idaho potatoes....

[@Wolvieonepunch]

must be getting hard up for content cause this is the umpteenth time you've done a vid on the Idaho

[@denisecanaday5677]

USS Idaho was never equipped with turbo-electric propulsion.

[@larryentwistle8506]

I'm thinking..... boilers

[@fgoogle5576]

TRUE. also, 14" guns are not "jaw dropping"

[@partygrove5321]

@@fgoogle5576 The newer North Carolina and Iowa class ones had 16 inchers.

[@david_porthouse]

So how were Idaho’s guns controlled? What sort of fuzes did the shells have? None the wiser here.

[@briangulley6027]

With an X-Box controller of course, some people so dumb.😜

[@benjaminrush4443]

Great Video. Thanks.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

No crew is EVER looking forward to battle deployment.

[@ShadowOfAnEpicSaxmanExclusive]

How many errors is this video going to have

[@aurorajones8481]

Start a list of the many errors. I have no clue so i cant say.

[@StacyBaldwin-qv5cj]

Haha right, this channel gets as much wrong as they do right

[@leftistsarenotpeople]

ALL of them!

[@sharzadgabbai4408]

Ive flown c130s and crewed cutters to Alaska. I never floated.

[@onlythewise1]

my dad was a plank owner on the iowa bb61 fought in ww2

[@1chish]

"the Most Jaw-Dropping Guns Ever Seen"? The Royal Navy's 'Nelson' class had 9 x 16" guns just 7 years after Idaho and every US Navy BB after Colorado had 16" guns.

[@timinashton]

6:45 Iceland? Iceland is not close to Alaska or Japan.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

In fact it's in a different ocean on the other side of the world.

[@Greg_Gatsby]

Yet somehow they managed to sail from one part of the globe to another. 🇺🇸

[@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm]

@@Greg_Gatsby Isn't that the advantage of having a navy that can go anywhere there are oceans?

[@davidvines6498]

Iceland is close to Alaska, if you cross across the Arctic Ocean

[@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm]

@@davidvines6498 Yeah, almost the same planet. What is wrong with these critical people?

[@AROBASPARK]

If I didn't recall the Big Idaho Potato Truck adds, I would be scratching my head for the whole video as to why she was referred to as the Big Spuds?

[@philgiglio7922]

Okinawa, the fleet that came to stay

[@PresidentCamacho24]

What? Iceland, then California, back to Iceland, then to the Marshall Islands? I think you need a better editor.

[@tm13tube]

Iceland is in the Atlantic. Could US Navy ships go through the Panama Canal?

[@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm]

@@tm13tube Carrying them across the frozen Arctic BY HAND would never be expected or anticipated by any enemy foreign or domestic. Might even surprise the Canadians.

[@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm]

@@tm13tube Yes but there were size restrictions. Now, with the new canal and enlarged locks next to the older ones, much large cruise ships can traverse the Panama Canal.

[@SnowmanN49]

@@tm13tube Yes

[@SnowmanN49]

@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm Husky's, they used Husky's to drag her across the ice.

[@AddisonLawton230]

I really wish The United States Kept all of the Battleships and made them into Museum Ships. 😢

[@jeffreymckie3328]

Maybe not previously seen but certainly not ever seen.

[@dutchman7216]

Well done gentleman.

[@johnjohnson2137]

Thumbs down for clickbait BS title. Shame eternal.

[@dwightrush4247]

Yeah but after decommission what happened to her!?!?

[@erikbarrett8523]

The most jaw dropping on a U.S. Navy battleship. Not the most jaw dropping ever.

[@MatchGrade08]

You think 14 inch guns were the most Jaw dropping for the US? Come on it was clearly the dual 5 inch 38 that were jaw dropping. 15 rounds a minute per gun. Thats 30 rounds per turret per minute with multiple turrets. If your fine with melting them down that sounds like a constant roar. Constant flames is rather than one blast is a much better spectacle. The other nations were not real jaw dropping though. 18 inch 45 looks pretty stubby on the Yamato to the lean long 16 inch on the Iowas. Slow fire rate too. Nearly equal guns but ones nearly double speed though us ships varied by about 20 percent so both could be faster or a little slower but who knows how slow Yamato would be on a bad day. If you mean not on a battleship there are 18 inch 47 cal mark 1s laying around in the US. Still it would be a better case to say the Idaho battleship was the best looking instead of the armament being the most jaw dropping.

[@mikejacob3536]

How did the Idaho get from the Aleutian Islands to Iceland on the way to Japan? Does no one own a globe?

[@tm13tube]

The Wisconsin is berthed in downtown Norfolk, VA beside Nauticus, a museum.

[@417jumps3]

God war sucks for everyone involved involved….

[@PresidentCamacho24]

Thank you Captain Obvious.

[@417jumps3]

@@PresidentCamacho24 haha!!!!!! Just trying to be politically correct but I could have said other things!! Don’t want loser KZbin to block my comments for 24hts

[@yogibarista2818]

"as far as the eye could reach" ?

[@SlowSTEN]

Just wait till this man hears about the (Sadly Sunk) USS Montana.

[@richardtooley1795]

If the narrator speak like a human - I could watch it to the end.

[@eriklarson2066]

Japan lost at every battle. What were they thinking?

[@bobbymac1947]

we need these ships back on active service.

[@ozymandias1758]

8:18 her 5" 25cal guns were replaced with by ten 5" 38cal guns in single enclosed mounts, enhancing her AA capabilities? Did he get it wrong? I have never seen a single enclosed 5" mount, and havent heard of this mount before, particilarly not for AA use, on a USN battleship. Sounds more like what the Kriegsmarine used on their capital ships. Can anyone shed any light on this? Edit: I think at this point he meant DUAL mounted enclosures, which is standard secondary armament for USN BBs

[@kurtwpg]

I don't even understand what they mean by "caliber" here.

[@ozymandias1758]

@@kurtwpg so the US Navy determines the caliber of a shell by its length in inches. So the new longer shell would weigh more, utilize more powder resulting in a larger, heavier, harder hitting munition. Like a Magnum treatment of the same diameter 5" shell. Lengthwise.

[@kurtwpg]

@@ozymandias1758 Thank you

[@jimdunn3452]

Single on the Idaho.

[@SnowmanN49]

5" single mounts were standard main armament on most of the newer classes of destroyers although I don't think any were fully enclosed, usually open at the back.

[@kennedy6971]

What do you say when u blowup a island only to learn the enemy already left? I would have thought intelligence would have known

[@dougmoore4326]

Anti aircraft guns do not “pump lead”🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

1:42 The title is bullshit clickbait which does disservice to the Idaho memory. As a commentator mentioned the Yamato and her sister ship Musashi had 18" guns which never fired in combat. The effective guns are those that do damage. Apparently, size doesn't matter.

[@fgoogle5576]

CLICK BAIT Most US battleships of this era were fitted with 16" guns, not 14". Some Japanese ships had 18" guns. So how does Idaho have "the most jaw dropping guns" at 14"? Oh, improved AA guns? Nope, still not jaw dropping. Explanation? CLICK BAIT AGAIN, always with DARK SEAS

[@edmundp123]

Decommissioned. Surveyed. Melted down?

[@bf-696]

"Jaw dropping"? Still waiting to hear what they were. Click bait.

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

Note that the Iowa CLASS (4 ships) all had the same 16" guns - as did the immediately preceding South Dakota class (also 4 ships). Not even CLOSE to "the most jaw-dropping", the German "Gustav" railgun would arguably be THAT at ballpark TWICE the diameter and MUCH longer (and much longer range with a much heavier projectile). Title isn't even clickbait, it's an outright LIE.

[@frankcooke3859]

Hypersonic Missiles. 😂😂😂. Sea Drones. 😅😅😅.

[@jpmtlhead39]

If 14'' guns are jaw-dropping,what to call the 18'' guns of the Yamato and Musashi...??!!!

[@ianhood8081]

Coral reefs... 😐

[@zvast]

Is this AI voice?

[@zerk9092]

16in

[@larrykopp1166]

@scottmeredith: Those sailors would have keel hauled Donnie bone spurs.

[@Phil-s4u]

Can yall imagine if they made a ship for biden? The uss biden....it would probably be a coast gaurd boat.

[@lanceleavitt7472]

Someone please tell the idiotic politicians to quit starting wars.

[@richardtooley1795]

Must be an American thing.

[@joedirt861]

Why she look so sleek though? Like old girl still thick but she trim now too

[@ronhastings8439]

jaw-dropping? really? again a shame you are going this road!

[@scottmeredith3359]

Willing to bet the Idaho had a lift kit and Trump flags flying off it even back then 😂

[@robertpatterson9594]

Trump is a draft dogger he wouldn't have the balls to do what they did

[@PresidentCamacho24]

😄😄😄

[@mawhayden]

I don’t think so, these hero’s believed in America and the constitution.

[@kaleidoset2569]

​@@mawhaydenexactly it blows my mind how many of these young quote on quote tough guys think that anybody that ever fought in these wars would have believed in anybody like Trump my grandpa was on the USS Enterprise in World War II right through 1945 and afterwards on operation Magic Carpet and and all of my great uncles were in World War II and I guarantee you not one of them would have been able to stand the sight of Donald Trump or any of his minions without puking

[@mawhayden]

@@kaleidoset2569 Hey Buddy I served and I am 62 years old born in 1961, Eisenhower, Reagan and Bush served, Trump did not. Did you know Mr Smarty that Trump did a pass in Vietnam he NEVER Served and he bugged out stating that he had bone spurs so what the hell are you talking about. When it came time to actually fight, Trump clocked out and DID NOT FIGHT, so what the hell you talking about ...ARE YOU DRUNK. by the way, did you serve yourself ?

[@richardsuggs8108]

Really there was little that the Japanese could do in Alaska.

[@Greg_Gatsby]

I think the video mentioned the Japanese presence in the Aleutian Islands was a diversionary tactic to draw American forces away from the Battle of Midway.

[@thomasbullen5239]

I always thought they should have been left to "wither on the vine". Re-supply would have been near impossible.

[@tonynannenga1954]

This is a B/S story. My father-in-law Tommy Heckman was one of the 1,500 Alaskan natives called the Alaska guard were the first ins in those islands. By the time anyone else got there they had killed over 40,000 Japanese forces with 1500 men. They had 3 casualties that were not war related. Frost bite and a sprained ankle was the cause of their wounded. They hav been compared to Alexander the great with what they accomplished. By the time the Navy arrived it was already over. The Japanese forces had already left. If you think this story is hogwash get ahold of the Native veterans Center in Anchorage Alaska and they will straighten you out right quick. Your story is a bulshit story. The Navy was not there when they did it.

[@francislutz8027]

Dead people leave evidence Skeletons, uniforms, service weapons, rations, field equipment, winter weather gear etc. These things don't dissappear. And if even 1 body was missed out of the 40,000 you claimed, someone would have found it by now. Don't believe stories old people tell you. Just smile and nod, then go Google the truth.

[@alanstewart1596]

You have to be compassionate when the Americans exaggerate. They have earned the right to do so.

[@tonynannenga1954]

@@alanstewart1596 No one has earned the right to lie?

[@MrBenski81]

Back to his incohesive overspeed narrative shit again. Watched 10 seconds before thumbs down.

[@cmw9876]

An interesting relationship between the title . . . and the truth? Yes. BS as usual. Even the best stories can be ruined with BS titles. Shame 'Tube. 👎

[@stargazer5784]

The firing of, and damage caused by, any WW2 battleship grade main battery would be the most jaw dropping display of firepower that that you could ever hope to witness. As an example, during tests it was shown that the 16" MK7 guns on an Iowa class could drop plunging fire onto a target that was capable of penetrating 30 feet of solid concrete from miles away. The 14" guns of the Idaho would have a somewhat less, but similar capability.

[@Happy11807]

THESE GUYS THAT PUT OUT THESE VIDEOS NEED TO FACT CHECK THEIR AI AND OTHER FACTS THAT ARE NOT FACTS !

[@MrBenski81]

And sack that fkn narrator.