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I love the sound these make.

Murica
Not really

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no

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>>70156054
nice joke but everyone got btfo in the pacific before 1942
even the americans that were there at that time

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>>70156081
The difference is that neither the US or UK needed to be liberated.

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>Tirpitz
improved Bismarck-class
took 4 years of constant attacks to finally get her, so kind of successful

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>>70156172
we will always be grateful of the canadians who did that in europe, not the canadians of today
and the australians in the pacific

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Yes

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>>70155966
Wake me up

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>built the biggest warship
>underestimated the US air force
>big cannons never worked efficiently

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>>70156374
always found it a bit funny with those massive battleships that they had this weird tower defence-tier ideas of 'what if we just slap a billion AA guns on them surely that must work'

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>>70156374
Kind of surprised given the way OP worded things that you didn't post a picture of a Korean woman.

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our coastal defense ships.

one of them struck a mine,and their blue water seagoing capabilities were so poor that one of them had to be towed to the british coronation fleet review in the 30:s.

Armament and fire control systems were best pre-radar things imaginable.Displacement was half of a light cruiser,yet it had similar firepower than a heavy cruiser with a bolted on destroyer( 4 x 254 mm and 8 x 105 mm).

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>>70156424
well it kinda it
also we never got BTFOd

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>>70156374
TOMATO A CUTE!

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>>70156469
SOUNDS VERY GOOD

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>>70156600

>>70156424
It was actually quite effective for the american warships at least. An Iowa-class could put a terrifying amount of shells in the air and do it accurately (for wwii standards). The japs simply had shit guns and shit fire control.

>>70156643
the iowa class SUCKS
t. Bismarck bro

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>>70156643
i wonder if they went overboard the other way round in modern ships since they went from a billion guns to a few

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*Bismarcked*

RIP in Peace HMS Hood.

>>70157331
well modern ships mostly kill things with missiles these days, the guns are almost pointless

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>>70157373
not really been a war to actually get a proper proof of concept has there?

papertanks with peeshooters
not very effective against T-34s

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>>70157364
NO MERCY

>>70157364
Well, it was a WWI battlecruiser up against a new battleship. The outcome was pretty obvious.

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>>70155966
best shit we ever had

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>>70155966
UK
Yes

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>>70155966
India

HMIS Bombay

I don't think they got BTFOed

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HMIS Jumna

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HMIS Narbada

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HMIS Sutlej

>>70159637
>>70159560
>>70159469

Did the pooships ever see action?

>>70159765
Royal India Air force and Royal Indian Navy fought in Japan and Caribbean during the ww2

>>70159765
The navy was actively involved in operations during the war around the world. Its sloops HMIS Sutlej and HMIS Jumna played a key role in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily.

>>70159765
It was heavily involved in operations around the Indian Ocean, including convoy escorts, mine-sweeping, supply, as well as supporting amphibious assaults.

>>70159765
RIN received amongst them the following honours and decorations: a KBE (Mil.), a knighthood, a CB (Mil.), 10 CIEs, two DSOs, a CBE, 15 DSCs, an OBE, 28 DSMs, eight OBIs, two IOMs, 16 BEMs, 10 Indian Defence Service Medals, a Royal Humane Society Medal, 105 mentions in dispatches and 118 assorted commendations.

>>70159907
K

>>70157784

Sometimes it just baffles me why the hell brits were so triggered when one (1) battleship and 2-3 heavy cruisers and 2 battlecruisers at max were at the atlantic raiding random convoys with no air cover and weaker detection equipment.
Brits had atleast like 12 battleships,2 carriers,2-3 battlecruisers and shitton of lighter vessels to chase them.

And "muh subs" is not an argument,submarines are shit against even remotely moving (15-18 knots) capital ships

>>70156643
We had the proximity fuse for AA shells.

>>70160035
>triggered
?

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bad girl loaded with 15 of Long Lance torpedoes

>>70156503
>literally survived a nuke

Why was the Prinz Eugen so based?

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>Pola, dead in the water, was witness to the catastrophe that befell her sister ships. Resigned to their fate, Pola‘s crew abandoned all discipline. British sailors boarding Pola after the battle found empty wine bottles and drunken sailors. After Pola‘s crew was evacuated, British destroyers torpedoed and sank her at approximately 0300.

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>>70156054
Love the Lancaster.

>>70155966

We used to make our own indigenous bomber

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>>70166377

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>>70155966

IA.38 Naranjero

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>>70155966
No (Yes by the zero but we don't talk about that)

>>70165409
fucking kek
sounds like it would've been a right laugh

>>70161172
Cancer ship, so glad it was nerf'd in World of Warships.

>>70165409
Why does Italy not get 1/5th the shit France gets for being so hilariously incompetent during WWII? I read that the Italian air force was so garbage they had to just borrow German planes, even after bragging about how advanced their planes were during the 30s.

>>70159637
Good lads

>>70178545
because italians have been like that since day 1, france was good at war once

>>70179373
But then how do you explain Rome?

>>70178545
We seem to be pretty good at getting away with things for some reason.

Still, we weren't ready for war: at least we have the partial excuse of a shit and underequipped army and a still mainly agrarian economy which could not sustain a prolonged war. Also shit morale because we were fighting someone else's war.

The French supposedly had the best army AND they were defending their homeland to boot. So it stands out more.

>>70156424
the billion guns wasn't done in the beginning
with the constant strafing they had to add on aa defense or else they would be out long ago
they couldn't rebuild the warship from scratch and they didn't make so many to be able to sustain constant loss

>>70179580
quite a big fucking gap between one and another

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Submarine Vetehinen we sunk russian submarines with by crashing to them full speed