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[@dallasarnold8615]

You should have given the name for those that don't know.

[@Sajuuk]

Telling people it's the "Yamato" would be nice.

[@djwritestoomuch]

​@@Sajuukthanks. Kinda figured that's what it was but it didn't say so I had to come to the comments

[@user-hq7br2nh3r]

To Hell with all this metric crap. Give it to me in SAE .

[@Bartolomeo78]

Its Japs so in metric, unlike the USN ones, Missouri & Co.

[@musicman3079]

“Guys hear me out” “We make a gun, and put a ship on it”

[@myrandomlife8881]

😂

[@randyblackwell5016]

lol

[@Su-33-27K]

A-10: flying gun

[@thedyingmeme6]

A10 be like

[@nipun9504]

A gun? A GUN!!!???

[@mehmetyucesan3177]

Narrator never once said Yamato. 😂😂😂

[@tonymickens8803]

Didn't have to HAHAHA!

And yet we all know of what ship he's referring to. Ship is a legend.

[@user-bn7zt9mk9r]

Or Musashi. !!! It never mentions the names : IJN Yamato IJN Musashi. IJN SHINANO. ( The last, during construction, was modified to an aircraft carrier). I put here their names, because never mention it.

[@LochlanMain]

Either way in the end it’s the worlds biggest shitty submarine

[@tonymickens8803]

@@LochlanMain HAHAHA, Good One!

[@gattsaki6797]

" how many weapons are we going to put on the ship? " " Yes. "

[@m0nkEz]

And will any of them be useful AA guns?

[@fnafworldfredbear1492]

Nah.

[@petkofuchalski9809]

​@@m0nkEzwho needs AA guns, when you can sink islands? 😄

[@davidpearson6062]

What island? Was that a speed bump?

[@Battlemode-l9p]

@@m0nkEzyamato main guns had beehive AA shells releasing thousands of hot slag and sharapnell at American flyıng tincans

[@ThaqifRaisinBugs]

"my ship got turrets!" "My turrets got ship" Yay first time hitting 1k!

[@CIoudStriker]

Fun fact: Each of Yamato's main gun turrets weighs more than an entire Fletcher-class destroyer.

[@Rotorhead1651]

​@@CIoudStriker Funnier fact: And now they're ALL at the bottom of the Pacific playing coral reef.

[@Oh-God-Of-All-Creation]

​@@Rotorhead1651 if only it had better anti aircraft and aircraft to protect it.

[@BelugaChonky]

​@@Rotorhead1651is this your coping mechanisms because Japan had the biggest battle ship?

[@brenthayes1671]

😂😂😂

[@mojoron]

The Yamato was kind of like being the tallest kid at a spelling bee.

[@alden1132]

Or the fattest kid at dodgeball...

[@Armis71]

Lol so right.

[@ksgreenland]

Best post ever!

[@ESQUERDISMO_INIMIGO_DO_BRASIL]

Ainda assim foi o navio de batalha mais poderoso da 2° guerra, Iowa a 2° melhor classe

[@antonyduhamel1166]

It was designed for a big-gun battleship slugging match. Unfortunately, it was an air-war that it was heading into.

[@billypitts6368]

"All ships are submersible at least once"

[@calebfelicianomedina7862]

Man im dead💀

[@calebfelicianomedina7862]

@TheReaICowfish 💀💀💀

[@battlehenge4]

Airplanes only crash once.

Moskva Moment (2022 Russo Ukraine War) 😂

[@michaelnash9970]

The bigger they are .... 🐲 The quicker they roll over....🐶 and play Dead 🤨

[@chillycosplay]

300 planes for 1 ship, a moving castle

[@Rotorhead1651]

Hmm....try this for comparison: It's like a full-grown grizzly bear being killed by 300 ordinary honey bees. Not so impressive for the bear.

[@chillycosplay]

@@Rotorhead1651 i dont think then ran the planes into the boat, they dropped house destroying bombs

[@lucs3251]

@@Rotorhead1651 The bees had torpedos and bombs?

[@massimookissed1023]

Over 1100 plane sorties were launched against the Tirpitz.

[@m0nkEz]

And yamato shot down like 12 of them...

[@nexus-n-ts7wb]

Building the Yamato was like, a legendary sword, that can cut through anything. While everyone wass using a machine gun.

[@SailTheShip]

The irony is it didn't cut through anything. It sank before it even got a chance. Legendary.

[@Ishizaky1]

1 vs a million, so what still badass

[@notlegoguy2511]

@@SailTheShip stupid ass planes...

[@Ccar2686]

Heavily armed, yet fell victim to a violent air attack

[@MiniMC546]

Because she was built when the time of war was shifting to air power, which made Yamato vulnerable to bombs and torpedoes dropped by aircraft.

[@meetbpatel5065]

not to mention unlike other ships it had a slight gap of blind spots where none of AA could fire. Musashi had the same issue still it took 17 bombs and 21 torps according to GOOGLE.

[@Lightning-95292]

Well, I understand that at least 4 or more aircraft carriers sank the Yamato.

[@Cesp43]

​@@meetbpatel5065that was mainly due to the Americans torpedoing both sides of Musachi, which actually helped counter flood operations, as was seen by the Yamato it only took 9 Torpedoes, but she was already listing by the 4th hit. The bombs though would never have penetrated the deck, I feel really bad though for all those AA Gunners, deck men, and crewmen on the superstructure. RIP.

[@rikcleary1680]

Must have been using current Aircraft Carrier rules from WoW.....

[@ThisisnotTwitter]

How badly do you want me to mispronounce coaxial? Yes.

[@ernestcline2868]

Why did they need an AU (Artificial Unintelligence) narrator for this‽

[@soppdrake]

They spellt it wrong, so the AI didn't stand a chance

[@j3ff3ry18]

coke's eye-uhl turrets

[@delinquenter]

@@j3ff3ry18 japuraneeze narrator be like: Eh, good enough.

[@scottciesielski6854]

Yo fr fr like c'mon mane

[@ecofriendly_woodveneers]

The IJN Yamato: the guy she tells you not to worry about

[@ericolsen5592]

That'd be the Missouri

[@ecofriendly_woodveneers]

@@ericolsen5592 oop

[@shawdcummings2160]

Cause they're at the sea floor?

[@girthbrooks39]

Much is unknown about the guy she tells you not to worry about, however the one safe bet is that dude probably ain't no jap.

[@georgejohnson8674]

Why? It's not like anyone worried about it. We sank it.

[@NomadUrpagi]

"Vergil, give me the Yamato." "If you want it, then you'll have to take it, but you already knew that"

[@greghelms4458]

How cool would it have been to have that one as a museum ship.

[@jacobcastillo9275]

Imagine!! I would definitely go to that museum!

[@history_nerd2024]

There is a museum in Japan with a 1:2 scale model Yamato. Just look up "Yamato museum" you'll find it.

[@Alexander-hunters10]

Underwater museum

[@billkallas1762]

There is a 26 meter long model of the Yamato, in a museum in Kure, Japan. It cost $1.3 Million USD to build.

[@leeblake3989]

Think of the ramifications. If the Yamato had survived to be a museum ship, you would be speaking Japanese now.

[@MiniMC546]

Yamato remains as my most favorite battleship ever built.

[@williampratt7618]

Yup. Makes a great man made reef as well currently.

[@randied603]

I still think it is the most beautiful battleship ever built

[@yuliasari184]

​@@randied603 I agree

[@robertborglund5783]

I'm a fan of BB59, Fired 1st n last 16 inch shells of the War.

[@rotorheadv8]

The U.S. Navy certainly enjoyed sinking it.

[@CZD31095]

Yamato: Yo guys lets put an absurd amount of guns on one big ship!

[@Banzai51]

Then proceeds to sink no ships during the war.

[@edpublic]

people can sleep standing up!!! Pack More Ammo Dammit!!!! 😂🎉

[@carl112466]

The Battleships days were over by WWII. Billy Mitchell said to stop building them and build flat tops instead, that is how the sea battles will be won. He's thanks was to be Court-martialed.

[@andrewsparks4112]

he said other things also.

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

I disagree that the days of battleships were over, they were still pretty significant, especially for shore bombardment & reinforcing a carrier fleet. The US kept using battleships up until the gulf war in the 90s. Missouri was modenized & fitted with modern AA systems & tomahawk cruise missles, it was an absolute beast. That being said I understand your point about naval warfare shifting to focus on carriers, that did relegate battleships to support roles. I just dont think that means they were obsolete.

[@hialeahchico2828]

Battleships were used all the way up to dessert storm 1991 😅

[@verynormalperson7003]

@@dosidicusgigas1376 actually all 4 Iowas were modernised from 1981, just wisconsin and missouri fought in iraq

[@jamesvickery308]

Battleships could be relevant today.....put the New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin in the PG, and the Houthis and mullahs would mine their manners.

[@unowno123]

Now they just need to make it fly

[@user-ox8jc4vx5q]

Spsce Battle Ship YAMATO! lol

[@weregarurumon3202]

Needs wave motion technology first

[@user-gu8qi4me8x]

I actually genuinely agree with you. ​@@weregarurumon3202

[@ydk1k253]

Uchuu senkan YAAAMAAATOOOOOO

[@er1cdoom]

I was gonna say, they didn't even mention the Wave Motion Cannon.

[@PanioloBee]

My father served on the USS Heermann when it made a torpedo run on the Yamato during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The torpedoes missed but it took the Yamato out of action in order to evade the torpedoes. My dad said “That ship looked big. But, damn those guns looked bigger”! He didn’t talk much about the war but only the funny things.

[@fredburban8219]

Your dad kept my dad safe, he was in Lyte Gulf on the Mt Olympus one of the Command Ships.

[@cag1763]

Great story...my pop was on an apa...he always had bad things to say about Halsey...

[@malcolm.wilson4163]

Hey man, I understand what you mean about your old man not talking about it hardly ever, to get my old man to talk about his time in the Tank Corps fighting Rommel, was like pulling finger nails , just didn't enjoy the memory's and mates that didn't come home.

[@arun1924]

Salute your father 🫡 A generation of soldiers that the world will never see..

[@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz]

@@malcolm.wilson4163 What did Irving say? if those boys could see the UK (and US/West in Gen) they wouldn’t have gone a yard up those beaches”- I think the same applies to all we lost basically defending what are psychpthc glblst traitorwhrz have made a ritual of humiliation to give tf away. Cheers from the US of Isrli NGO sponsored K-Allergy Pln 3DW I’ll lee gull All Ian’s, Limey cuzin

[@YourFeiendliestMemeMaker]

It died to the thing it was meant to protect from: AIRCRAFT

[@TheEDFLegacy]

I learned a while ago that apparently the Japanese had absolutely atrocious anti-aircraft weaponry throughout the war. Many of them suffered from either low fire rate, low range, low damage, or a combination of the three. So not entirely surprising.

[@YourFeiendliestMemeMaker]

@@TheEDFLegacy pretty funny how it died to the thing it was meant to be most resistant to.

[@Concerned-Nihilist]

It was built to protect the ships that in American hands killed it! Why of all countries in WWII did Japan waste so much capital and resources on ships they had proven to be obsolete, at Pearl Harbor?

[@Concerned-Nihilist]

​@@TheEDFLegacyWhat killed the Imperial Navy was not having radar, and the ability to fight at night. They did have rotten range finders and accuracy problems too, but that didn't matter when they couldn't even see the enemy firing on them.

[@Nelson-fg1xz]

​@@Concerned-Nihilistalso losing the kido butai in midway

[@KingOfStopMotion]

0% Drugs 0% Nudity 0% Swearing 20% Absolutely awesome music 20% Amazing Historical information 20% Amazing Animation 20% Gun 20% Total Weight 100% Y A M A T O

[@DavidLeBlanc]

My dad was on the Raymond, a DE in Taffy 3, and his ship was the next up to attack the Yamato. It was at that point the Japanese broke off the attack. The fierceness of Taffy 3's own attack convinced the Japanese that Halsey's ships lay in waiting for them. The Raymond fired all of it's torpedos, no hits, and fired it's two 5 inch guns so hard and fast that they glowed red. Right after that the Kamikaze attacks started. Talk about a hard day at the office.

[@TheBronzeTurkey]

No he wasn't.

[@supertec2023]

Nothing beats Space Battleship Yamato

[@oxide9679]

Everything beats it considering it became a tetanus infested fish habitat without scoring a single kill.

[@traumaloop]

​@@oxide9679nah yamato solos your verse fr

[@Rotorhead1651]

Especially since it's make believe. 🤨🙄😑🤦

[@dainka]

Having triple half-gustavs for 3 turrets is insane

[@warmwaffles]

So powerful that it's now a Coral Reef.

[@Ishizaky1]

quite similar to your builds

[@alsandairosullivan1525]

Correction: The most heavily armed coral reef ever built.

[@philmatoph]

damn

[@shuipsezairi6527]

You’re so funny

[@josephwilson9082]

The fat election will agree.

[@diogoamaral3933]

Pearl Harbor know right? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Uthandol]

Yamato was a vanity project for the IJN. They knew full well the age of big gun fights were over, they helped usher in the air war phase we have been in ever since. Besides there are things that look good on paper but then dont pan out. Ohio was better overall. Hell, even the Bismark could have probably given it a problem.@@kuhnville3145

[@thelatiosmaster]

If only her radar and AA guns were as good as her guns were...

[@jlim9411]

The only advantage the guns had were their size. They were slower to aim, slower to reload, and less accurate than the guns on other battleships of that time.

[@bmxriderforlife1234]

​@jlim9411 facts it was like a boxer who has a Haymaker and just head hunts vs actual skilled fighters. Yamato was just a hit seeking bruiser not really a technical achievement.

[@thedragonreborn9856]

She would have killed more Americans before she died but she still would have died

[@Norsilca]

​@@bmxriderforlife1234 That's the entire idea of the dreadnought battleship. It's the strategy of pretty much every battleship of the period.

[@daleburrell6273]

...and "if my AUNT had BALLS- she'd be my UNCLE!!!"

[@GamerOfLegends163]

You forgot to mention the best part of the "most powerful" battleship: it doubles as a submarine 😃

[@joelee2371]

Once.

[@Battlemode-l9p]

Avarege 7 year old listening to American propaganda 😅

[@GamerOfLegends163]

@Bgcfan192 Ah yes, the "American propaganda" that the... Yamato sank? I mean, seriously, how fucking stupid can one person be? You can dislike America without sucking the nuts of the IJN lmao

[@gigginbig3]

@@Battlemode-l9phow is that American propaganda was it not sunk ? If not tell me where in the world it is right now your the average seven year old who hates America because America 😂

[@xenocyde8498]

@@Battlemode-l9p the yamato really did nothing of any value in favor of japan in ww2... look up its military service record and the sheer amount of mechanical issues it suffered

[@cooliocon2758]

*Narrator* “Corral Reef Status: Complete”

[@fulcrumsee5968]

Thats a good one

[@calvincanada4723]

I always loved this segment of naval legends

[@user-kh8cc4bx7y]

the music slaps and fits so well

[@calvincanada4723]

@@user-kh8cc4bx7y dude so real I remember searching for hours trying to find the song they used but I never found it :(

[@geralddiaz7259]

6YCYYCN. 7

[@bedrock-chess]

I never thought about it, but the secondary battey guns rival cruisers in caliber…

[@uteriel282]

the two 155mm secondaries are light cruiser main guns. the 127mm secondaries are destroyer main guns. yamato basically had one light cruiser and 6 destroyers strapped to its deck.

[@adadcheetus5404]

Yes, the 155s were the same gun type originally used on the Mogami-class cruisers in their light cruiser original load out. In fact, I actually think the turrets were taken from a Mogami class-ship when they were up gunned in 1940-1941.

[@bedrock-chess]

@@uteriel282 Holy sh*t, I never really thought about that.

[@user-ht6vg2gl2d]

The weight of the triple main turret of a Yamato-class battleship is said to be the same as that of a destroyer of the time.

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

A pretty light cruiser. Standard cruisers generally have an ~8in (203mm) main battery.

[@TclNuke]

Ahh yes... A-10 Warthog, the flying gun... Yamato, the floating gun

[@KriskitArms]

More like the sunken gun

[@BoschDaWiseman]

Now I'm imagining hearing brrrrrrt from a battleship

[@hornblowrfilms928]

Take a moment to appreciate the lad's who sank it, they were truly brave and talented pilots. 🙏

[@TheSympathydenied]

They were brave not like American males today except Army Infantry

[@federicofelici9703]

brave pilots and brave sailors in the yamato. That war in the pacific... what a nightmare it must have been... fought by kids that where men...

[@erickjthemuse]

Now it's the world's largest submarine

[@thedragonreborn9856]

Duuuuude 😂😂😂

[@Kaiser_corp]

I get the joke

[@SithEmpireV08]

don't sleep on it. it may be sunk but its a naval legend for a reason. its still very powerful in the game

[@nutterbuttergutter]

It’s a nice coral reef 🪸

[@shanep2369]

Shouldn't have poked the Giant.

[@DoomShepherd]

US Airplanes: "I'm gonna Wreck it!"

[@thedragonreborn9856]

She was just a floating target to them

[@Ulfrich_Stormcock]

Kinda tragic that she didn’t survive the war as a museum. What a waste

[@cooper7354]

Ok Ralph 😂😂

[@sergionuno]

​@@Ulfrich_Stormcockthe Japonese didnt allow it, its final Journey was a suicide mission, intended to protect Japan. They send it alone against the US navy. They really intend for it to die in battle.

[@Ulfrich_Stormcock]

@@sergionuno I know. Which is why I said its tragic

[@cjmarsh504]

"I went in dry, used the big one"😂😂😂😂

[@user-br4hu6ys3s]

This comment was written by a Japanese person through Google Translate, so there may be some errors in the translation. The 46cm main gun, the main armament of the battleship Yamato and the largest cannon in the world, was kept secret not only from the United States and other countries at the time, but also from the Japanese people, and even from military personnel who had no direct connection to the Yamato, and was given the name "Type 90 40cm turret" so that it would not be realized that it was the largest cannon in the world. Following on from the main guns, which are Yamato's distinctive armament, we will also introduce the 15.5cm secondary guns. These secondary guns were modified from the 15.5cm main guns that were removed from the Mogami-class light cruisers (second-class cruisers) that were originally scheduled to be converted into heavy cruisers when Japan withdrew from the Naval Armament Treaty and there were no longer any restrictions on the possession of heavy cruisers (first-class cruisers), and were instead replaced with 20.3cm main guns, and were installed on the Yamato-class. The Type 89 12.7cm anti-aircraft gun, the most common anti-aircraft gun in the Japanese Navy, was installed on various Japanese Navy ships regardless of ship type, including the modernized Kongo-class, Fuso-class, and Ise-class. Of course, the Yamato-class battleships were no exception, and some of the guns installed on aircraft carriers were equipped with shields to protect the anti-aircraft gun and crew from smoke and seawater spewing from the chimneys, and some of the Yamato-class guns were equipped with shields to protect the gun and crew from the blast when the main gun was fired. This anti-aircraft gun was introduced during the Pacific War, but at the time Japan did not have the technology to accurately shoot down American aircraft, which were fast and durable, and the development of a successor anti-aircraft gun was difficult, so it fought in the Pacific War and the Chinese Civil War as a valuable artillery for both Chinese armies, along with tanks and destroyers provided to Japan when it was defeated after the war. The Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun is a typical anti-aircraft gun of the former Japanese military, widely adopted by both the Japanese Army and Navy. There were single-barreled versions, which you grab the handle with your arm and move it to aim and fire, and twin and triple-barreled versions, which you turn a handle to determine the elevation, depression and direction and then fire. In the field, the single-barreled guns were more highly rated because it was difficult to keep up with the aircraft when aiming by turning the handle, and it was difficult to hit the target properly at close range. When the Yamato-class battleships were first built, only those with shields to protect them from the blast of the main guns were installed, but when the usefulness of aircraft was proven, the 15cm secondary guns on both sides were removed and many anti-aircraft guns and shielded triple-barreled 25mm guns, as well as many exposed machine guns linked to a fire control system and wireless (which could also be operated by manned forces) were added. All guns except the radio-controlled ones were manually aimed, and unfortunately the fire control systems that controlled the radio-controlled ones did not perform very well, but the 25mm was a large caliber for a "machine gun" and had excellent destructive power, and it is said that they were able to achieve some success against the sturdy American aircraft that were approaching.

[@stuartbarrett592]

Excellent narrative. Thank you.

[@Onemoretake01]

They should have gotten you to narrate this. Thank you

[@PyrrhoVonHyperborea]

46cm? Largest gun in the world? _"Schwerer Gustav"_ would like to have a word with that! What's your area code?

[@jamesotayza2230]

Yamato was unfortunate in that by the time she set sail, the reign of the battleship as queen of the seas was ending. The time of the aircraft carrier had come, and battleships became juicy targets. I view Yamato as a kid looks at dinosaurs. Long gone but still fills me with excitement.

[@ExDorados]

"Якудза острова Самат" Там он не шёл, чтобы погибнуть в бою а не у стенки. Там он шёл убивать авианосцы И убивал Возможно вы просто не понимаете, почему таким был его последний бой. Не понимаете японцев.

[@kevinpappenfus7758]

Well yes aircraft carriers where the thing of the future but you still had to protect them thats where other ships came in and aircrafts but still the usa is looking to make more battleships they still want firepower

[@kcooke00]

Yamato was the flagship at the Battle of Midway that directed the battle for her nation. Japanese fielded 4 aircraft carriers at the beginning of that battle. All 4 were sunk by the U.S. Navy. The Americans had three carriers at the beginning of the battle yet only one was sunk. Give the US Navy it’s due. It out fought Japan.

[@realfreedom8932]

I think they will become popular again. A heavily armoured ship like that, combined with advanced sea and air drones can not be beaten

[@tommygunnggg1127]

This is the ship they put jus enough fuel in for a one way trip n ran it a ground right at the end of the war

[@TheEngineerIsEngi-here]

Me showing the cashier the 100% discount coupon i have:

[@Cassius365]

Damn that’s a large bean, almost 40 meters

[@orrieallen7320]

The only thing that Godzilla wanted to play with.

[@TheAddanz]

Its a shame none of these ships survived, absolutely incredible engineering. The cool part was the discovery of blueprints so many years after at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, long after the blueprints were thought to have been lost.

[@GU-ni4xj]

What city wa mitsubishi heavy industries located?

[@adambutton6414]

​@@GU-ni4xjNagasaki, I think

[@BelugaChonky]

​@@adambutton6414💀

[@verushistorie]

The company that made the guns, still exists. Japan steel works.

[@dallas_pandora4206]

It’s not incredible engineering anymore and more just dumb engineering when you realize how the Yamato was sunk so easily

[@wesleysmith5580]

The Yamato still holds the record for most guns on a submarine...

[@YamadaKohie]

US: And I make that a "Coral Reef" 😏

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

The Japanese Navy investing on the Yamato is like stock traders investing their life savings on Blockbuster stock

[@DrSabot-A]

And all 3 of the stocks, the Yamato, the Musashi, and the Shinano literally and figuratively sank to the bottom of the ocean. Its crazy that Japanese industry didnt bankrupt themselves building it in the first place

[@Potato-pl5cr]

​@@DrSabot-Afrom my understanding, they pretty much did bankrupt themselves building them. They had to hit other countries for the oils to run them

[@LazySillyDog]

​@@Potato-pl5crwasn't the best strategy for sure, but it's cool to learn about the culture and ways of thinking that allowed all of this to happen in the first place

[@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520]

Yeah but they would be some damn good looking video stores Even when abandoned and run down people would say it’s their favourite place to vandalise and commit crime at

[@SS-cl3hw]

大和が建造された時点ではまだ航空主兵論は出ておらず、その頃アメリカも戦艦を作りまくっていた。戦艦が時代遅れとなったのは1941年12月に真珠湾のアメリカ太平洋艦隊を日本の航空隊が壊滅させた時です

[@briantaylor9285]

*Davy Jones Locker* Bismarck: "You too, mein freund?" Yamato: "Hai."

[@GeorgeM56]

Good one!

[@ShadowRider711]

Good one!!

[@nofwild6325]

Both victims to air superiority (yeah the Bismarck was already sinking but I don’t care the swordfish get the kill credit and the king George 5 and co. Get assists

[@user-xo3ed7zx3q]

💀

[@kochitegaming4013]

Yamato: *looming threat of obliterating her enemies* TF 58: *laughs in air strikes*

[@Britton_Thompson]

The best part about having all that extra steel on the ship is it sinks faster from being unable to fight off aircraft carriers

[@largestudent198]

This ship changed the course of naval warfare forever.

[@johnwright9372]

Just imagine forging and finishing 18.1 inch guns, transporting and installing them, then loading and firing them. All lost to a few thousands dollars worth of bombs.

[@dragoontype00alphaz19]

Just to think they were planning to swap out them guns for even bigger ones getting hit by 460mm devastating but imagine what over 500mm would do

[@Rotorhead1651]

​@@dragoontype00alphaz19 Further reduce the amount of ammo you can carry? 🖕😈

[@scottbatey3130]

My father was the number one gunner on the U. SS Cabot during this battle. He lived to be 95 years old.And I miss him everyday❤

[@MooMoo628]

Super cool

[@YOURpopsINthe305]

Awesome!

[@leonidsalcedo5370]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheBronzeTurkey]

No he wasn't

[@scottbatey3130]

@@TheBronzeTurkey No you weren't.

[@brianwright9514]

Current Status: Coral Reef

[@Britton_Thompson]

When you waste billions on an obsolete battleship because you didn't get the memo this is the age of the aircraft carrier

[@ThePhoenix198]

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, it had 11 aircraft carriers in service, whereas the United states had only seven. It is therefore arguable that prewar attitudes and doctrine had made it more successful in the development, innovation, and advancement of this technology - AT THAT TIME. That makes the subsequent growth in numbers and quality of US carriers and, equally as important, their doctrine and tactics all the more remarkable. Oh, and both the Iowa (1940-44) and South Dakota (1939-42) classes of battleships were laid down and built after the Yamato class (1937-42).

[@mgultas]

let's paraphrase that. it was the bulkiest ship ever. as in evolution, u don't survive in a war just because you are big and strong, u survive because u can adapt to your environment.

[@ImperativeGames]

It's like a game of chess. You counter each other's moves. For the start of the WWII it was a great ship. But in battles that happened towards the end of WWII it became mostly a great target for air forces.

[@GaryBScary]

Cool video but without the comments i would have no idea what ship this is.

[@keck4022]

It says in the caption „the most powerful ship ever built“

[@jackjones9460]

@@keck4022Saying “most powerful battleship ever built” still requires most people to search for its name and history. Providing the name would make the presentation more accessible.

[@sovietunion9131]

​@@jackjones9460 IJN Yamato

[@Potato-pl5cr]

​@@keck4022they should change the title. They can't claim it's the most powerful ship, the largest of its time sure. Saying the Yamato is the most powerful is like saying that Iowa is the most powerful. There's just not enough real combat data to back that up

[@keck4022]

@@Potato-pl5cr again, there’s a difference in powerful and best. The Yamato was the most powerful since it had the most firePOWER. It wasn’t the best tho

[@user-ih5ie8lm9m]

Some random torpedo: “I’m boutta end this man’s whole career”

[@tomrohan8480]

It's the perfect example for the phrase "Armed to the teeth "

[@Uthandol]

And on the bottom of the ocean. How did those teeth work out?

[@tomrohan8480]

@@Uthandol it wudve worked out had it been employed during the earlier part of the war.. ie before the battle of Midway

[@Uthandol]

Doubtful. Battleships were on the way out before midway imho, but maybe. The thing is, it looks formidable on paper but so did the HMS Hood, and we know how both ships turned out. @@tomrohan8480

[@enumaelis1448]

@@tomrohan8480 Also would have been much harder to take down if the Japanese kept it with an escort fleet instead of letting the ship get caught out alone with no support.

[@tomrohan8480]

@@enumaelis1448 👍 true

[@konekillerking]

Tied for most water displaced at sinking during WW 2.

[@PayNoTax-GetNoVote]

Sea level raised when they launched it....

[@falconerd343]

Tied with what?

[@edwardharrelson6988]

​@@falconerd343the Mushashi (Yamotos sister)

[@donshipman8441]

Japanese Navy architects “Ok we are going to put as many guns as we can in a pile and build a ship around it”

[@Aveanu]

My honest reaction when that one guy says i suck at that one naval game:

[@viniciusvideobox]

Shipyard: how big do you want your guns? Yamato: *YES*

[@waifumeilingzhou6430]

A very impressive Battleship indeed it did something no other Battleship tried going into space😂

[@WildBill172]

Yeah good one 🎉

[@sstace69]

Such a good movie 😂😂😂

[@facubeitches1144]

Hey, it wasn't for lack of trying on our part! - HMS Hood, HMS Barham, USS Arizona, IJN Mutsu

[@EagleBeagle4886]

"WHERE does he get these wonderful toys?" - The Joker

[@user-lb3hd7ip4o]

From the air a ship is bombed

[@innocentellie]

Watch my 460mm go bang!

[@SovetskayaUSSR]

*"What big and strong main guns would you like, Sir?"* *Y E S*

[@lucassmith3797]

"Hey Bob what should we do for our next boat design?" "GUN" "what?" "GUN!"

[@catrojana3694]

The fishes said thank you for such beautiful corals.

[@ze-ke3743]

悔しいですがとてもセンスを感じます

[@chrisbranch2891]

Haha I was coming to say the same thing

[@metaknight115]

The battle off Samar was the only time Yamato put her guns to use, being her only surface action and all. Yamato verifiably hit the escort carrier Gambier Bay and the destroyers Johnston and Hoel with her main and/or her secondary guns beyond 20,000 yards, sinking or helping to sink all three ships, and damaged the escort carrier White Plains with a debated hit/near miss at 34,500 yards.

[@kevinmargavitch649]

Yet they still cut and ran after a destroyer attack. Any ship is only as good as her Capt and crew. Capt. Evan's was a great skipper and his crew was with out question a great crew.

[@V1N0MI]

​@@kevinmargavitch649Tell me, if your a captain and saw these small mighty DD that is hard to hit charging at your BB, A BB THAT IS EASY TO HIT, Would you fucking risk taking 10+ torpedoes for no reason? ABSOLUTELY NOT, THATS WHY THEY CUT AND DID MANEUVERS.

[@erichammond9308]

Incorrect, all of her hits on USS Hoel and USS Johnston were from inside the 6 mile range of their torpedoes. Most hits were at a range of 4,000 to 5,000 yards - all hits were basically inside point blank range for battleship main guns. The hit on Gambier Bay was from 10 miles, and there's no debate regarding the near miss that damaged White Plains, it was a miss. Compared to the USS Washington hitting the IJN Kirishima with 89% of her shots (both main and secondary guns) at 8,000 yards at night that's pretty poor battleship gunnery. Simply put, the North Carolina class and South Dakota class battleships could have stayed outside of the effective range of Yamato's guns and pummelled her into oblivion.

[@aztec0112]

It's reported Yamato fired San-Shiki beehive rounds during Operation Ten-go

[@metaknight115]

@@aztec0112 Yes, but there’s were more like pyrotechnic displays than efficient AA guns.

[@fyieafgeyuv4402]

This ships is a legend for its power. Its so powerful in game its the only tier X out of its enemies from other nations. Insane

[@nemesisgaming9479]

Powerful, yes, but it would've lost to the Iowa had they met. While the Yamato holds the advantage in broadside weight and range, it had no capability to see/aim that far. The Iowa was faster, and could accurately fire beyond visual range. Japanese metallurgy was also suspect at best. Upon test firing at the frontal plate armor of the turret they found numerous cracking in the metal. I can't find the source anymore, but I also remember reading something along the lines that IJN were using ww1 style plunging fire ammunition instead of the more current ammunition fielded by the USN. This is also another advantage to the Iowa. All things considered, the tier x status is more hype than realism.

[@captainphilips5469]

Iowa could not fire beyond her effective range, which was not better than other battleships. When her fire control was being developed it was hoped that radar and a advanced fire control computer would allow her to fire accurately to her maximum firing range but this was proved incorrect when firing at USS Nevada for over 5 days and achieving an extremely low hit rate. Even modern ships still have an effective firing range lower than their max range. So if Iowa is close enough to actually hit Yamato then Yamato can also target her. Yamato did not have the best radars but they were capable of finding a battleship sized opponent well before in gun range. Secondly US metallurgy was not superior to Japanese. On plates thicker than 10 inches Japanese Armour was superior at resisting penetration however was susceptible to shattering after multiple hits. US Armour was not as hard therefore was able to take more hits before losing strength but could not stop penetration as well as Japanese Armour of the same thickness. And Yamato had extremely thick Armour. As to which ship would win, it is a matter of opinion really and could go either way.

[@PorscheRacer14]

@@captainphilips5469 One is a museum, one is a wreck.

[@bobplissken5767]

​@@PorscheRacer14One was attacked by more than 300 planes. Iowa would never have withstood such a number of bombs and torpedoes for so long or a Yamato class salvo

[@nemesisgaming9479]

@bobplissken5767 the hype is no different than the hype of the katana. Idle fantasies vs truth. The katana vs is western counterparts would be useless.

[@marivellaina2595]

"hey Ron" "Yeah" "Battleship ahead"

[@johnesmero2528]

Imagine the person operating the AA Gun when main cannons are fired. Their eardrum will explode like hell haha

[@anthonyramirez9925]

The Yamato is my favorite funny ship, they built this giant monster and spent so much resources building it that they avoided sending it into battle out of fear of losing it, and then when they finally do send it out it dies, absolutely hilarious

[@UGNAvalon]

And by the time they finally decided to send it out, there was nobody left to watch its back.

[@hashteraksgage3281]

The Japanese knew they were sending the Yamato on a one way trip. The yamato was meant to beach on Okinawa and act as a fortress that had to be completely destroyed to silence its guns. They knew it wasn't coming back.

[@anthonyramirez9925]

@@JesusJonez-hn9js true, it was a very well built ship, no one really knew that by WW2 the game had changed

[@darkstorminc]

Yamato took a much greater pounding than her sister ship. There was more than one of that class

[@krashd]

Finding the deaths of several thousand people hilarious is a bit grim.

[@lucaspham5238]

Largest, most powerful and most beautiful

[@Uthandol]

It had zero, count them, zero kills. It didnt do a thing except almost bankrupt the IJN. You ant just paste guns on a boat and call it powerful. The boat needs to do something, like the Bismark.

[@babochee]

Bismark is most beautiful, yo

[@martyroush6829]

The New Jersey 👍

[@oxide9679]

​@@Uthandol The Bismarck didn't do anything either except target some civilian cargo ships before getting turned into a shitty submarine.

[@dallas_pandora4206]

@@Uthandolbismarck is equally just as shitty as the yamato. barely any use, bankrupt their nations and end up just being sunk easily.

[@kingdomcat8244]

How many Guns sir? Yamato: Yes

[@OneTrueWindfall]

Ah, the worlds most expensive coral reef.

[@RussellMiller-gh7fb]

It took the Japanese four years to build it and it only took the US Navy four hours to sink it

[@DTSephiroth]

A good argument against superweapons in general and never putting all of your eggs in a single basket.

[@ShadowRider711]

Very true. Exactly why making super weapons is a fatal move in war.

[@nasu68000]

@@ShadowRider711 nukes?

[@ShadowRider711]

@@nasu68000 does that count since they actually work?

[@nasu68000]

@@ShadowRider711 The Yamato worked? You also never mentioned about the fact that they had to work Edit: typo

[@FirstLast-su7tb]

Total amount of the ship now under water: All of it.

[@iRossco]

Same displacement, well less actually as it's sunken

[@Gee4You497]

Stupidy in ya comments

[@caiodias503]

Well, mostly ships or sunk, or scrapped, or turn into museum.

[@Mastermindyoung14]

@@caiodias503 sunk, in this case. watery museum

[@UNSCPILOT]

Displacement now: around 340m under water

[@Gorilla_Jones]

Any ship would have suffered the same fate. A single ship against an entire Armada of aircraft is not what these ships were designed for. Yamato was on a suicide almost solo mission. You need combined air cover. And even with the amount of aircraft that were in the air it took several bombs and about 12 torpedos before the ship succumbed to the firepower against her. This thing was a juggernaut. Remember, the Japanese also did not have proximity fuses. The US would have lost many more planes if that were the case.

[@a_rice_bowl3663]

The USS Laffey suffered a pretty comparable mark for being just a destroyer where it took four direct bomb hits and six kamikazes. Now granted there wasn’t torpedos involved, but damage control and air defense were two very defining portions of the naval battles of WWII in the pacific theater imo

[@Mobius_118]

Bombers: *It's Free Real Estate*

[@williamcostigan91]

Ah the type 96, only slightly less effective than standing on the deck yelling at US aircraft.

[@AugmentedGravity]

The Yamato and Iowa class battleships will forever be one of the coolest and most beautiful machines ever built by man

[@Rotorhead1651]

Um......you apparently don't get that that's not only NOT "one" thing, it's 5.

[@nicholasreyes5893]

The right ship for the wrong war

[@MR-sj6rq]

She was a beast, but without air support she did not make it.

[@kanacop5539]

As soon as I saw the title, I was like 👉”Yamato”

[@TonytheZealot]

“How much firepower would you like?” “Yes”

[@Rotorhead1651]

Hmm....not enough, apparently. Oh well.

[@thedragonreborn9856]

She was actually at the battle of midway and chased after the American fleet after they sank the carriers but didn’t take part in any engagement because the Americans wisely withdrew having achieved their goal

[@Rotorhead1651]

Still sank

[@thedragonreborn9856]

@@Rotorhead1651 Not until the battle of the Philippine sea

[@clintmerz5727]

Yamato, the heaviestly armed coral reef

[@viking4130]

Two were built, the Yamato and the Musashi , the world's largest Battleships with 9 main guns of 18.1 inches, the largest ever mounted on any ships in history. Both were sunk in the last year of WWII.

[@alirezarezaei2976]

And with all of her might, she proved that quantity always beats quality

[@GeneGear]

Worse: it wasn't even that high of quality. It LOOKED impressive, sure, but the Japanese simply didn't have enough high quality steel to actually build it correctly. They had to cut corners with pig iron, and skimp on the secondary armaments... ...which included the AA guns at a time when air warfare had just showed its superiority. It was also stupidly slow and bulky, and didn't have ANY submarine defenses. Hitting it at the same time with both subs and air is the reason why it was doomed only a few hours after it left port. It was a military disaster, and a logistical nightmare, which is why US didn't build our own super heavy battleship just to one-up the Japanese. Instead we built the largest aircraft carriers ever because MURICA.

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

​@@GeneGear we ?

[@TGT_reindensburg]

Ah yes the biggest hotel in the world aka the Yamato class battleship

[@HannoVanNiekerk-jc1gd]

This it the IJN YAMATO for those wondering

[@KennethByrd-yb3cu]

I believe it's the Bismarck

[@wnl.ruzz2498]

​@@KennethByrd-yb3cuits yamato lol wdym

[@KennethByrd-yb3cu]

@wnl.ruzz2498 thank you...I learn something that I should have already known

[@hirixyu-aoba]

@@KennethByrd-yb3cu これは大日本帝国海軍の戦艦「大和」ですよｗ

[@slowbro-]

If you ever feel useless, remember the yamato's secondary weapons 😂

[@bagoquarks]

Dinosaur. Built on the assumption that the USN would sail into a 1905-style, cross the "T", battle as if it were a coal-fired Tsarist fleet. The IJN squandered resources that would have been better used on additional carriers and training naval aviators.

[@mortimer5939]

They had enough of both but then greed and arrogance kicked in and Midway happened.

[@wheelmanv]

Everyone watch out for this guy, his superpower is using hindsight after the fact lmao. I guess anyone that built any battleship after 1930 was a complete idiot eh?

[@zacharytracy3797]

Yup. The Iowa Class ships were DEFINITELY total garbage that served NO purpose ever and was never ever used for anything other than it’s original purpose. Yup them folks who made these complicated war machines were just dumb and stupid and we’re smart

[@adriansantiagojr.8378]

still a big ass ship

[@bagoquarks]

@@wheelmanv Dinosaur indeed - IJN Yamato was a tactical threat that was seldom used. Nobody was being called an idiot. The Iowa Class certainly had its role in WW2. Consider this strategic trend of air power over BBs: 1. July, 1921 - Billy Mitchell's land-based airmen sink the KMS Ostfriesland in an inter-war demonstration of air power over naval warships. 2. November, 1940 - HMS Illustrious carrier aircraft damage multiple Italian warships in the Port of Taranto. Afterwards Japanese naval attaches study the results on site. 3. May, 1941 - HMS Ark Royal carrier aircraft disable the steering on KMS Bismarck, setting her up for destruction by the guns of HMS Rodney and HMS King George V, and the torpedoes of other surface units. 4. December 7, 1941 - Naval aircraft from 6 IJN carriers are used to disable or destroy many aging USN battleships at Pearl Harbor. IJN used the lessons of Taranto to great effect. 5. December 10, 1941 - Land based Japanese aircraft sink HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales near Malaya because they had no air cover. 6. June, 1942 - Although available for the overall operation, IJN Yamato's significant anti-aircraft battery was not close enough to Midway to assist. Instead, land and carrier based aircraft from Midway and 3 USN carriers win 4-1 (in carrier count). Note that the USN had NO battleships present. A day or so later IJN Mikuma (a heavy cruiser) is sunk because it had no air cover. 7. November, 1942 - Yes, USS Washington sinks the IJN Kirishima at night off Guadalcanal. However, just prior, USN cruisers disable IJN Hiei at night; she is finished off in daylight by land-based aircraft from Henderson field on Guadalcanal. These battles were really about the strategic value of the U.S. air power based on Guadalcanal. IJN Yamato was based at Truk at this time and could have been dispatched for these battles, yet it never entered the waters of the Solomons. 8. Later in the war the Iowas and other 16" BBs escorted Essex Class carriers to provide anti-aircraft support with their stupendous arrays of 5" guns. They were also useful in shore bombardment with varying results. They were never "garbage", just not as strategic as aircraft carriers.

[@NotKeif]

I love how the Anti-Aircraft guns shoot larger projectiles than most main guns on a modern battleship

[@b.l.9764]

There are no modern battleships.

[@jaxton2207]

That may be the joke, if not I apologize, if so, he ain’t wrong.

[@enumaelis1448]

@@b.l.9764 Modern warships would have been the more accurate statement.

[@Rotorhead1651]

Yet it was still sunk by aircraft.... ....hmm. 🤔

[@Oh-God-Of-All-Creation]

We don't really do battleships today

[@DenceSanchez-ge5on]

Shinano: WHY IM I A CARRIER, WASENT I SUPPOSE TO BE A BATTLESHIP LIKE THAT? Yamato's 4th Battleship: ....

[@DenceSanchez-ge5on]

The Meaning: In 1935 The Concept design of the Future Superbattleship is Izumo, But Turned into Yamato instead, Then the Japanese Decided to Make 4 Yamato Class battleships, Till in 1941 when Yamato is fully completed and Musashi, the 3rd Yamato Class Battleship Shinano, stopped and was converted into a Aircraft carrier, the 4th Yamato Class battleship stopped due to attack of pearl Harbour and joining in WW2. Just say anything else pls.

[@reynaldomercado2920]

I hope battleship will make a come back when railgun are perfected.

[@kirkstickney7394]

US Navy Pilots, “Hold my beer”…

[@waryth4475]

Your US Navy sailors can't say the same towards Kamikaze pilots.

[@Black-Re4per]

It's so sad that we won't ever see ships like this in our life time again.

[@ThunderZephyr_]

ahhaahah, no

[@holywicked4202]

There are several us battleships that are museum ships that you can visit and tour now if you meant that we won’t see them sailing and shooting your probably right we won’t see them in action cause they’re unnecessary for anything short of being a show of power because cruise missiles can shoot further and do just as much damage as the 16in guns on a us battleship

[@Black-Re4per]

@@holywicked4202 I meant seeing them sailing on the Oceans.

[@dNorsh]

@@Black-Re4pernah imagine one piece ah wars going on with these things💀💀

[@Black-Re4per]

@@dNorsh interesting thought 😅😅

[@actionjackson8552]

Despite having larger cannons, she was out ranged a good amount by the Iowa class battleships since they used radar to guide their guns whereas the Yamato didn’t so she couldn’t really push her guns out as far as they could theoretically reach compared to the Iowa class and they’re 16 inch guns

[@user-rm6ut8td9y]

Some officers like Isoroku Yamamoto advocated building aircraft carriers rather than battleships, but it seemed that the officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were basically only interested in how beautiful and cool ships could be added to their collections.