Alright /k/omrades, which was the best ww2 warship. >Pic related

A burger carrier probably. I would say that that one is the best looking tho

Objectively it was the modern 'murican ships but I'm a bong and like some of ours best. Japshit was alright but no that class.

>>34879168
>Probably the best
Not in World War Two, all the Japanese battleships had terrible AA, terrible fire control and terrible damage control.

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>>34879168
Favourite is Nelson & Rodney.

Sloped armour
When Intercepting enemy Armour angles more and can have all 3 turrets bear
Torpedo tubes
MOTHERFUCKING 16 INCH GUNS so powerful they couldn't fire it without the bridges being awash with motherfucking glass, toilets becoming a ceramic tsunami, and deck planking splintering

This ship kills bismark from point blank range

>>34879219
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6rYqI8z_4

>>34879168
That was the best armored hotel and best Inter-War Battleship but it wasn't the best ship by far. That would probably have to go to a US ship for their radar guided gunnery control and effective AA systems.

>>34879168
USS John Burke was a blast.

>>34879168
This thread gave me a good idea for a new thread/game I'll post in about a day or so

Overall, one of the later model Essex class carriers.

Gun/Battleship: Iowa class, hands down.

>>34879168
>this is the best

but why?

>>34879168
>which was the best ww2 warship.

The torpedo bomber.

>>34879168
USS Samual B Roberts
I'm going to go after your huge fleet in a ship with two 5 inch guns and balls of steel

Some burger carrierzzz

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>>34879168
Lexington when she still had her 8" guns

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Type XXI

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Let us make sure history never forgets the name, Enterprise.

>>34879168
Implacable-class carriers.
Essex-class and ThaiHo come second.
>>34880008
Sadly spoiled by a fugly space ship.
Yorktown and Shōkaku-classes the best ships at the start of the war.

>>34879168
That's a funny looking aircraft carrier.

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Anything that isn't the Mighty Mo is objectively wrong

>>34882023
For aesthetic the Iowa class is best class. But all battleships were rendered almost completely obsolete by aircraft carriers.

>>34882052
>implying
Iowas are fatasses. NorCars or nothing

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>>34879742
Came here to post this. Also, the USS White Plains, also because of badassery in the Battle off Samar:
>Targeted by 5 in (127 mm) gunfire from the destroyers and destroyer escorts, the Japanese cruiser Chōkai was hit amidships, starboard side, most likely by the sole 5 in (127 mm) gun of the carrier White Plains.[53] While the shell could not pierce the hull, the 7 pounds (3.2 kg) bursting charge it contained set off the eight deck-mounted Japanese Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, which were especially volatile because they contained pure oxygen, in addition to their 1,080 lb (490 kg) warheads. The explosion resulted in such severe damage that it knocked out the rudder and engines, causing Chōkai to drop out of formation. Within minutes, an American aircraft dropped a 500 lb (230 kg) bomb on her forward machinery room. Fires began to rage and she went dead in the water. Later that day, she was scuttled by torpedoes from the destroyer Fujinami.

>>34882175
They both have the same beam, but Iowa is over 100 feet longer.

North Carolina is short and fat.

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>>34879235
I love Nelsol and Rodnol, but where credit is due, they were slower than sedated treacle and the BL 16 inch Mk I was a weaker gun than equivalent foreign designs. We screwed up the design when we copied the German idea that a lighter, faster shell was somehow more effective. But still, they were an excellent design compromise in the Washington treaty era and gave good service.

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>>34879168
The Flower-class corvette. Not pretty or flashy, but they did their job well, and a vital job it was.

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>>34882175
This.

Showboat or no boat.

>>34879168
Best target ship, maybe. The Japanese lost more aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor against a surprised and unprepared enemy, than when the Americans used this shit for target practice.

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I've always loved the profile of this BB

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Just an old light cruiser but a good one.

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WEE VEE

>>34887428

Just fuck my Surigao up.

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>>34885098
Slowboat lol.

>>34879168
Nice hotel

>>34888538
Wtf is going on in this pic?

>>34888642
High speed trials and prob waves

>>34879235
we should just use all the steel for HMS PoW and build a new Nelson with it desu

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>>34888642
Haven't you ever seen a bote go fast?

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>>34886247
>South Dakota class
My nigga

>>34888642

An armored ship refitted 25% heavier than its standard load-out called for doesn't ride waves so well.

>>34888786
not one going fast enough to pull its own stern down like that

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> Not the cockleshell canoe
Really guys

>>34886222
You really think an almost unescorted allied battleship, no matter which one, would have survived an attack of a comparable number of japanese airplanes? (or german or italian ones, if you like that better?)

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>>34886247
Sodaks are the sexiest BBs

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>>34879168
Anything other than Shimekaze is wrong

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>>34879742
My Grandfather served on one of the Roberts' sister ships, USS Richard S. Bull (DE-402).

Honestly, it's those little buggers - the destroyer escorts, the corvettes, the gunboats - that matter more than battleships. The most important of all were Liberty ships, but the little escorts that could be built in fuckhuge numbers made convoys actually work.

The War was won with numbers more than anything. We brought more ships, more planes, and more tanks to more battles. Japan was struggling to get any sort of strike force together, and then in the Battle off Samar they attack the "light" force of Taffy 3 - which had the combined carrying capacity of more than a fleet carrier. Combine that with the other two Taffy groups, you get well over 400 planes. IN THE "WEAK" "SUPPORT" FORCE.

My Grandfather, uh, didn't like that ship though. It was cramped, miserably hot, and he was the kind of guy who hated having anyone tell him what to do. He also had horrific memories of rescuing survivors of USS Suwanee and USS Eversole. He didn't talk much about the war, but mainly he was just happy to get out of it alive and intact.

He was also a serious sailor. The man was still sailing a 24 foot sailboat alone until he was in his late 80's, and as far as I can remember virtually never used the auxiliary motor.

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>>34890416
These babies really dig in.

>>34879168
montana

>>34893120
Reported, this is a blue board.