Modern Destroyers vs Musashi

From High School Fleet Episode 5

[michaelchristidis]

If Musashi’s main batteries had this fast turn it would have been the most powerful Warship to be ever made

[corporategunner]

This anime is basically: "Let's give these high school girls WW2 era military warships, what could possibly go wrong?"

[egosumhomovespertilionem]

The actual history of Musashi and Yamato demonstrated that neither of these sister battleships could survive multiple torpedo hits on the same side. A single modern Arleigh Burke-class destroyer could make short work of any World War II-era battleship without ever coming within range of the battleship's main guns. A half dozen modern torpedoes in one side of the big ships would be enough to capsize and sink them, and that's before we even begin to discuss the impact of the various modern-day ship-to-ship missiles. A one-on-one battle between an unescorted Musashi and a single Arleigh Burke would be over in about 20 minutes, all fought beyond visual range, and the Musashi would never get to fire her guns.

[runu]

For those who think that Musashi's armor could hold up to modern anti ship missiles. This may be case if the ship was struck by a single missile but considering how much explosives these missiles carry in their warheads and the sheer force that they impact their targets with, Musashi's armor wouldn't survive repeated hits.

And that is not taking into account the fact that the ship would be constantly on fire with the crew unable to control it due to them being constantly bombarded by missiles.

[OogwayT]

Oh no, a ship is firing at us!

Captain: quick, tell me what's going on!

[owen]

Sees the modern ships going toe to toe with Battleship. "Awe Hell Yeah" Sees School girls in school uniform. what the fack?!"

[MichaelChan]

As a Navy veteran, I find myself scratching my head. Vertical launched torpedoes a-la ASROC? Followed by the torpedoes not going under and displacing the keel but striking the belt? Huh?

[TKSSLCHN]

Since there is plenty of discussion in the comments, here is how this match would play out in an open combat situation:
1. Modern missile destroyers (DDG) could obviously way outrange a WW2 battleship (BB). A destroyer loadout features missiles with ranges from over 100 km (anti-ship missiles like Harpoon) to over 1000 km (cruise missiles like Tomahawk), whereas a BB could fire around 40 km while the horizon would appear at around 25 km.
2. Even within visual range, battleships were often quite inaccurate and needed many minutes to hours to score hits at longer ranges. A DDG in contrast can fire dozens of missiles within minutes.
3. While it's true that modern anti-ship missiles could not penetrate the citadel of a heavy battleship like Musashi, it doesn't need to either. The Bismarck for example was completely incapacitated due to the destruction of its fire directors and command bridge long before it actually sank. It landed no direct hits in an engagement that lasted over an hour at ranges from 23 km to just 3 km in the end.

So in short: The DDG would fire a solid salvo of anti-ship missile against the battleship, the battleship would lose its fire directors, control, crew quarters etc. The rest of the crew would likely evacuate because they're now sitting in a practically uncontrolled hulk engulfed in an inferno, with no options to retaliate. But even if they could sit it out, they would have little to no combat value and eventually starve.

For context on the fire: A British DDG was lost to a single Excocet hit at Falklands even though it failed to detonate. The accuracy of the hit and depth of penetration carried it deep inside the ship, so the missile fuel plus burnable materials on the ship alone were enough to destroy it. Massive fire damage has been observed repeatedly. A full salvo against a big target like this would undoubtedly create pandemonium.

[generalagondray]

For you that know know, high school fleet is based in the future where the icecaps have melted, most of the land is now underwater and the navies are the way of warfare and trade. Schools have been made in every nation to train high school students that attend these academies will be future sailors. they train using old ships, and the ones with the worse entrance grades get some of the worse ships. in the anime they also encounter a german girl where something went on with her school too.

[shockwave]

Fun fact: This is the early design of the Yamato class ship. Yamato and Musashi had 4 turrets with 3 155mm (6.1 inch) guns each for a total of 12. Later on, they both had the port and starboard 6 inch gun turrets removed in favor of the more iconic anti-aircraft gun platfotms that had 3 pairs of 5 inch anti-aircraft guns.

[Zakahia]

if the turret of the musashi would turn that fast: RIP all ship types

[bababdu]

If the destroyers were acting for real, they would've demolished the musashi with like 2-3 destroyers

[shadowkillz]

I think the best way to approach this is to directly board that battleship with multiple sailors on multiple fast moving raft/boats. Then they can immediately find those students and -beat them to death- see what's actually going on.

[tandemcharge]

If I had a dollar for every armchair historian-esque comment in this video, I'd crash the global economy

[CallsignYukiMizuki]

In a more realistic scenario, the DDGs will simply outrange the Musashi with Harpoons.
Also it seems like they didn't even bother with CIWS or Sea Sparrows

[tcsmagicbox]

That ship had so much plot armor that it was unsinkable!

[SU-AKAsky_dragon]

Musashi: *is ww2 ship moving in present and already sunked*

Modern navy: *this is normal*

[tylerslagel]

Why? WHY? *WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE LITTLE GIRLS??!!*

[gmsniperx]

The level of plot armor is beyond insane 💀 A modern destroyer would sink a WW2 era ship without the enemy even knowing of the ship’s location.

[matchc]

I think many people overlooked the things background, since the video doesn't show it:
There's these weird mind-controlling mice making the students aggressive to anything around them. Most people other than the crew of that WW2 DD showed up in the end of the video *did not knew this.

The DDGs perceived the Battleship was friendly but the latter one is infested with said mice and open-fired on them, Aircraft carrier is not introduced in the whole season since it would be hecking op, plus the writer is probably "Cannon fans" so they purged aircraft from the show-thus no TBD gaming.
The reason why they didn't just blew the superstructure, or make it ammorack, break it in half is that would basically means hundreds of school kids will be dead(even thou noone actually died in the show, so I would assume shooting the superstructure wont do jack), the reluctant of DDGs captain basically shows this so they went for mission-kill, failing miserably because plot, too-small of a torpedo and mice messing with electronic