>Largest battleship ever made >Doesn't sink a single

>>31840238
>Largest battleship ever made
>Iowa was 8 meters longer

>>31840238
Didn't it sink some DE from Taffy 3? Not that this is particularly impressive.

>>31840573
LRN 2 BMI ur ships

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>>31840238
>longest battleship ever made
>sinks a single training ship during its career

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>Biggest defense budget ever
>Fights two wars and loses both of them

>>31840573

The Yamato had a beam 20 feet wider and a much higher displacement.

>>31840657
Yamato fired the final shots into Gambier Bay.

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>>31840238

>>31840238
>and as she rolled suction was created that drew swimming crewmen back toward the ship.
Fuck the navy, I'd rather get shot in the face.

>>31842269
Yamato only had search radar. It didn't have radar directed fcs.

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>>31840238
>Loses a standup fight to a DE

>>31842269
>3.) Yamato scored a hit against Gambler Bay at a range of around 21,000 yards using only radar.

>implying a ship without radar guided fcs could use radar fcs

>>31842161
Gambier bay had already been abandoned and was mostly underwater from heavy cruiser fire by the time Yamato ever got near it.

Of course the fucking battleshitter would try to take the credit from the cruisers that actually did the job.

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>>31842560
>without radar-guided fcs
http://www.combinedfleet.com/b_fire.htm

>>31842269
Okay, a few problems with how this guy presented Lungrens story:

>the XO of White Plains didn't report any damage from that initial long range salvos, he stated that the shells fell a few hundred meters away and that he ordered smoke to be made
>the scout plane being used to direct Yamatos fire from nearly 20,000 feet away, reported the smoke as hits

No such damage was ever recorded by White Plains.

The most she suffered was splinter damage from her lopsided gunfight with Chokai, where her single 5" gun detonated a rack of Type 93 torpedoes and disabled the cruiser (which was later finished off with a bomb).

The lions share of the damage to Gambier Bay was done by heavy cruiser gunfire, which meant by the time Yamato and Kongo were shooting at her, she was an abandoned burning/sinking hulk.


The XO of Gambier literally says that it was cruisers that were firing on his ship until he ordered it abandoned, at which point the two BB's showed up.

For the destroyers, its anyone's guess. Lundgren is trying very, VERY hard to attribute anything he possibly can to Yamato. In actuality, nearly all of the damage done to the American force was performed by cruisers.

>>31842560
She did TECHNICALLY have radar ASSISTED fire control.

But it was about on par with what the US had in 1941, and it had a crew of a dozen people that had to manually input every single command and adjustment.

It was pretty trash, and anyone who actually knew what they were talking about would be EXTREMELY hesitant to attribute a long range shell strike to it.

>>31842794
I've never been able to love the Vanguard. Mostly due to the Lion class being cancelled and the Vanguard being some weird hybrid between a modern, powerful ship and an undergunned relic..

>>31842269
this reads like bad fanfiction

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>>31842848
>No such damage was ever recorded by White Plains.

I can't find the original, but Lungrens posted a transcript of the White Plains' AAR in the forum to prove his point. Seems pretty convincing to me.

http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/reply/249195/Battle-of-Leyte-Gulf-Center-force-intercepted-by-Oldendorf-#.WBTo08k2ej8

>>31843121
You have to remember, these are escort carriers. The strength of their construction is roughly equivalent to a civilian oil tanker. This "hit" didn't even cause any flooding through the 12mm thick structural steel, although apparently a fragment left a small dent on the bilge keel.

If a shell explodes nearby, its going to rattle the hell out of a ship as lightly constructed as a Casablanca. They're actually lucky the Japanese were still using the retarded diving shells, the fragmentation damage would have been much worse than just shaking the ship and tripping breakers had it exploded close to the surface.

>>31840573
Size is measured in displacement not dimensions.

>>31842145
>higher displacement

Just means she was a fat overweight pig, much like your mum.