Was the Yamato battleship good? #shorts

[adamroquemore]

I call this the Death Star problem, lol

[alexberntsen]

Everyone forgets about the third sister. Shinano was converted into an aircraft carrier and is the largest target ever sunk by a submarine.

[FreyR_Kunn]

The Yamato was a powerful ship, but it was utilised too late into the war. WW2 demonstrated that battleships need carrier aircraft to support them in order to survive. Since Yamato and Musashi were deployed to real combat in 1944, Japan lacked the carriers to protect them.

[TheArklyte]

"...in terms of aircraft defense."
And majority of those were japanese 25mm Hotchkiss copies that had small magazine size, no way to continuously feed them, vibrated too much for accurate fire, muzzle flash blinded and deafened the crews operating them, it had too little firepower to destroy full metal planes, its aiming sights and mount couldn't keep up with modern aircraft speeds and so on. Japanese 25mm was abysmal, IJN fanatic faith in it was pathetic and IJA made situation even more comical with their trophies in China in 1937, that they told IJN nothing about:D

P.S.: japanese 100mm AAA was good though. Lacked modern fuze setting and lead computers, but guns themselves were good.

[valnira]

Love the idea behind why it was made. Japan we can't match the numbers of the US fleet so we'll make bigger and better. And after pearl harbor the US switched to aircraft carriers and refused to engage in battleship slugfests

[ashwhite]

Quoting from another youtuber "it was the right ship for the wrong war"

[SoaringEagle]

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!”

[james-]

To quote world of warships "building yamato was like forging the ultimate sword, while everyone else was making machine guns"

[Ulfur]

If I remember correctly, the ship was jokingly called Hotel Yamato by its crew because it sat in Port for so long. Also one of the reasons it wasn't used was because it burned through fuel like it was nothing, so it was very taxing to the already taxed IJN.

[StandUpConorDy]

“Your portal opening days are over. Give me the Yamato.”

[InsolentCrow]

The Yamato is my personal favorite submarine, even if it isn't a very good one.

[Grey_Shard]

But it did inspire a pretty darn good space opera that incorporates classic quest elements with SF tropes.

[DefensiveMAN]

Can you make a video on the‘’interesting’’ inscriptions roman slingers wrote in their ammunition

[allangibson]

There were three Yamato class battleships built- the third, the Shinano, was converted to the biggest aircraft carrier on the planet and then sunk less than a day after leaving port on her maiden voyage.

[theemries]

Ah yes, the world’s coolest coral reef.

[PhantomSavage]

Yeah massive Naval vessels like the Yamato and the Dreadnaught is primarily the reason why we don't have war mechs in real life.

It seems like a good idea on paper, but when one of them costs practically a third of the entire war budget to build with no real means of repairing or replacing it if the enemy blows it up you quickly find out you're so afraid of losing it that you never actually put it in the battles it was meant to be deployed.

That's pretty much when we decided "Instead of building bigger war machines, let's just make bigger bombs."

[davidb]

The Yamato’s situation was like making the most advanced and powerful sniper rifle of all time but forgetting to make the scope

[Ushio]

When construction of the Yamato started in 1937 the USN strike aircraft like the Dauntless, Avenger and Helldiver were 3-4 years away from their first flight and carried 2000lb's of bombs while 3 years later it was up to 8000lb's.

You can say the Japanese should have predicted this rapid level of aircraft advancement but from the mid 1920's right up to the end of the 1930's naval strike aircraft continued to max out at 1000lb's of bombs.

The 1940's were insane at how rapid aircraft development happened compared to the 20's and 30's.

[Sectarian.]

When the Yamato was used it was sent in a suicidal mission without air cover so it's not fair to rate it's effectiveness when it was against impossible odds

[logangrimnar]

It's last stand would have been amazing, crashing through the American fleet to beach itself and act as an indestructible fortress would have been legendary.