Actually, Soviet Union was fighting against Japan in WW2. But it was in summer of 1945, after defeating Germany. Manjuria's Japanese troops were almost destroyed in a few weeks.
The Soviets brought many battle harden units if not all of them from the battles in Berlin both Using old BT7 and T26s And a combination of Sherman’s and T34/76 and T34/85s And IS2s And ISU152s the Japanese yanks had trouble with the old Russian soviet tank designs doesn’t help when they brought the newer and heavier mediums and lend lease or domestic tanks into Manchuria armor wise
Yamato spent so much time in port that Japanese sailors gave their ship the nickname "Hotel Yamato." 70% of the US planes lost were knocked down when the Yamato's magazines exploded as it sank.
The Problem With The Yamato is like Propeller Planes eventually it’s gonna get phased out because of aircraft carriers just as how propeller fighter aircraft are replaced by jet powered fighter planes in the later 40s early 50s
Was gonna post this yesterday on the Yorktown video, but it took me a minute to find the specific task forces involved, so it ends up being posted here...which is just as good anyway. There were at least 14 US aircraft carriers involved in the air strikes that sank Yamato...8 Essex class fleet carriers...including the USS Yorktown CV-10...and 6 light aircraft carriers all of the Independence class.
Yamato and her Sister’s were impressive for their time Although Shinano was rebuilt into a carrier after Yamato and Musashi were sunk And Yamato 111 (Was supposed to be called "Kii") was never built However with Shinano she had many flaws which were flat out ignored and not worked on which led to her eventual demise However Yamato and Musashi will remain as the biggest Battleships and Shinano will remain as the largest japanese aircraft carrier
Much like Shinano wouldn’t have made a difference and either would’ve been sunk like Shinano or Sunk by air attacks which happened to Yamato and Musashi Also she probably wouldn’t have been completed by the time WW2 ended and even if she somehow completed she would’ve been used nuclear bomb testing like Nagato
15:20 Extremely powerful and well-protected (until 1943) communication systems on board, she stationed far away from an actual battles and symbolic important for morale buster (Yamato is an accident name of Japan).
19:06 To put such big numbers in perspective, imaging quite decent, yet, retired heavy weight fighter going against 100+ aggressive gang members with knuckles, bats and knives at once. And, unlike in 2.7%, that would end predictably bad for unlucky old fighter.
1:48 Some part of it has to do with a lot of their atrocities being kinda swept under the rug. It just isn't as heavily focused on like it is with German atrocities.
Yamato were planned as early as before WWII there were in the blueprint state. She is never design to be an AA ship, Japan did their best to equip her with AAs as much as possible later the war. Her design were completely different when she is commissioned. She has 4 155mm guns instead of bunch of AAs and 127s. Yamato design is to be this Massive Giant that able to take and do damage to multiple battleships as much as possible. Yamato sister ship, Musashi is the only Battleship that being rush refit at the late war. Musashi never have many AAs compare to Yamato, however, Musashi has better Radar and Electronics compare to Yamato. Somepeople also believes that Musashi has better Damage control than Yamato too due to she able to stay afloat way longer than her sister. Japanese AAs were never be well known to be very good in WWII and out right horrible. They were close range 25mm AA guns compare to US AA which are 40mm Bofors. If Yamato equipped with 40mm Bofors like US do, she still struggle to win due to, Yamato Crew men are quite fresh meat. They we’re doesn’t have a proper AA training due to how new Yamato is after Refit.
5:46 But only Japanese prioritising to giving their war ships a poetic names. Like, Japanese Guided Missile Destroyer "The Dreadful Wind" sounds both intimidating and glorious. Especially in contrast with His Majesty Ship "Tyrannical", which sound intimidating (as it should, since it is guided missile frigate), but also cartoonishly evil and not so democratically-loving.
”Battleships can't beat aircraft carriers” ← In the 1930s, no one believed such a thing, including Americans. The decision to build Yamato was not a bad one, especially in the 1930s. No one in the world could have imagined that just ten years later, an era would come in which aircraft would be able to sink battleships. Ironically, it was Japan that demonstrated this. Six aircraft carriers and 400 fighters, bombers, and torpedo bombers Japan was the first country to decide to gather and centralize its huge air forces in one place. This is nothing short of ironic. How can we defeat a strong America? They agonized over this issue and tried many different methods. This is what led to this tragedy.
The Japanese were well ahead of other naval powers when it came to embracing the new capabilities of the aircraft carrier, but even they were still mired in traditional "battleships clash" type thinking. So they did not really invest in their anti-aircraft technology, and ended up being "stuck" with a series of guns and mountings and fire control systems for their AA defense that were pretty much across the board not as good as the AA systems of other nations. The US also started the war with pretty ineffective AA systems for ships, but invested much more heavily in developing new and better mountings and fire control systems, and got very fortunate to get access to both the Bofors 40mm and Oerlikon 20mm cannon designs in the period right before US entry into the war. And, of course...you know about the US development of the proximity fuse and what that did for the effectiveness of US 5 inch guns for AA purposes.
In regards to range...both the Yamato class and the Iowa class appear to have had roughly the same capacity for fuel, as both classes carried just a little bit less than 9000 tons of fuel oil...although the records are uncertain due to the Japanese destroying so much information about their super battleships. We know that US ships in WW2 burned "bunker oil" and it seems like the Japanese might use something else...since their fuel economy seems to be about half as good as what the US got from bunker oil.
I’m kinda amazed at the amount of copium being huffed by those presenters. Yeah planes changed the game, but both sides had planes and battleships. They’re like “she was the culmination of battleship technology” and I’m thinking, “bitch, the Iowas were killing people in the 1990s!”😂
And one more thing. It's true that Yamato was powerless against ten aircraft carriers. But what if the opponent was just one aircraft carrier? What if it was a one-on-one battle? Even then, it would be impossible for Yamato to defeat an aircraft carrier. Yamato was not that fast. But I don't think a single aircraft carrier would have been able to stop Yamato from heading for Okinawa. It all comes down to how you use it. What if ten Yamatos were to enter Washington DC? Could ten aircraft carriers stop that? I don't think it would be possible. Even in the "age of the aircraft carrier," Yamato would be useful if used in that way. If America had built Yamato, they could have used it more effectively. In other words, it was Japan's weakness that was the problem, not that Yamato was weak.
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Not so useless thing in the world after all, eh? Just referring to your harsh comment on 16:08.
Actually, Soviet Union was fighting against Japan in WW2. But it was in summer of 1945, after defeating Germany. Manjuria's Japanese troops were almost destroyed in a few weeks.
The Soviets brought many battle harden units if not all of them from the battles in Berlin both Using old BT7 and T26s And a combination of Sherman’s and T34/76 and T34/85s And IS2s And ISU152s the Japanese yanks had trouble with the old Russian soviet tank designs doesn’t help when they brought the newer and heavier mediums and lend lease or domestic tanks into Manchuria armor wise
Yamato spent so much time in port that Japanese sailors gave their ship the nickname "Hotel Yamato."
70% of the US planes lost were knocked down when the Yamato's magazines exploded as it sank.
Big fan of the Yamato. Went to the museum about 7 years ago. An awesome experience for sure.
The Problem With The Yamato is like Propeller Planes eventually it’s gonna get phased out because of aircraft carriers just as how propeller fighter aircraft are replaced by jet powered fighter planes in the later 40s early 50s
One thing I love about these Naval Legends videos are the CGI reenactments. They're beautiful
Was gonna post this yesterday on the Yorktown video, but it took me a minute to find the specific task forces involved, so it ends up being posted here...which is just as good anyway. There were at least 14 US aircraft carriers involved in the air strikes that sank Yamato...8 Essex class fleet carriers...including the USS Yorktown CV-10...and 6 light aircraft carriers all of the Independence class.
Yamato and her Sister’s were impressive for their time
Although Shinano was rebuilt into a carrier after Yamato and Musashi were sunk
And Yamato 111 (Was supposed to be called "Kii") was never built
However with Shinano she had many flaws which were flat out ignored and not worked on which led to her eventual demise
However Yamato and Musashi will remain as the biggest Battleships and Shinano will remain as the largest japanese aircraft carrier
what if kii was successful built and commission war instead being never built
Much like Shinano wouldn’t have made a difference and either would’ve been sunk like Shinano or Sunk by air attacks which happened to Yamato and Musashi
Also she probably wouldn’t have been completed by the time WW2 ended and even if she somehow completed she would’ve been used nuclear bomb testing like Nagato
15:20
Extremely powerful and well-protected (until 1943) communication systems on board, she stationed far away from an actual battles and symbolic important for morale buster (Yamato is an accident name of Japan).
At least this ship will rise again in the year 2199
19:06
To put such big numbers in perspective, imaging quite decent, yet, retired heavy weight fighter going against 100+ aggressive gang members with knuckles, bats and knives at once.
And, unlike in 2.7%, that would end predictably bad for unlucky old fighter.
1:48 Some part of it has to do with a lot of their atrocities being kinda swept under the rug. It just isn't as heavily focused on like it is with German atrocities.
The right ship for the wrong war
Yamato were planned as early as before WWII there were in the blueprint state. She is never design to be an AA ship, Japan did their best to equip her with AAs as much as possible later the war. Her design were completely different when she is commissioned. She has 4 155mm guns instead of bunch of AAs and 127s. Yamato design is to be this Massive Giant that able to take and do damage to multiple battleships as much as possible. Yamato sister ship, Musashi is the only Battleship that being rush refit at the late war. Musashi never have many AAs compare to Yamato, however, Musashi has better Radar and Electronics compare to Yamato. Somepeople also believes that Musashi has better Damage control than Yamato too due to she able to stay afloat way longer than her sister. Japanese AAs were never be well known to be very good in WWII and out right horrible. They were close range 25mm AA guns compare to US AA which are 40mm Bofors. If Yamato equipped with 40mm Bofors like US do, she still struggle to win due to, Yamato Crew men are quite fresh meat. They we’re doesn’t have a proper AA training due to how new Yamato is after Refit.
5:46
But only Japanese prioritising to giving their war ships a poetic names. Like, Japanese Guided Missile Destroyer "The Dreadful Wind" sounds both intimidating and glorious. Especially in contrast with His Majesty Ship "Tyrannical", which sound intimidating (as it should, since it is guided missile frigate), but also cartoonishly evil and not so democratically-loving.
”Battleships can't beat aircraft carriers” ← In the 1930s, no one believed such a thing, including Americans.
The decision to build Yamato was not a bad one, especially in the 1930s.
No one in the world could have imagined that just ten years later, an era would come in which aircraft would be able to sink battleships.
Ironically, it was Japan that demonstrated this.
Six aircraft carriers and 400 fighters, bombers, and torpedo bombers
Japan was the first country to decide to gather and centralize its huge air forces in one place.
This is nothing short of ironic.
How can we defeat a strong America?
They agonized over this issue and tried many different methods.
This is what led to this tragedy.
9:42 a big part of that is due to the Americans having engines which were a lot more fuel efficient.
The Japanese were well ahead of other naval powers when it came to embracing the new capabilities of the aircraft carrier, but even they were still mired in traditional "battleships clash" type thinking. So they did not really invest in their anti-aircraft technology, and ended up being "stuck" with a series of guns and mountings and fire control systems for their AA defense that were pretty much across the board not as good as the AA systems of other nations. The US also started the war with pretty ineffective AA systems for ships, but invested much more heavily in developing new and better mountings and fire control systems, and got very fortunate to get access to both the Bofors 40mm and Oerlikon 20mm cannon designs in the period right before US entry into the war. And, of course...you know about the US development of the proximity fuse and what that did for the effectiveness of US 5 inch guns for AA purposes.
Guns of the USS Texas by the History Guy goes into all the Bofors and Orlicon refits they were doing.
Much respect for such a navel beast. 😎 👍
In regards to range...both the Yamato class and the Iowa class appear to have had roughly the same capacity for fuel, as both classes carried just a little bit less than 9000 tons of fuel oil...although the records are uncertain due to the Japanese destroying so much information about their super battleships. We know that US ships in WW2 burned "bunker oil" and it seems like the Japanese might use something else...since their fuel economy seems to be about half as good as what the US got from bunker oil.
I’m kinda amazed at the amount of copium being huffed by those presenters. Yeah planes changed the game, but both sides had planes and battleships. They’re like “she was the culmination of battleship technology” and I’m thinking, “bitch, the Iowas were killing people in the 1990s!”😂
Gotta feel bad for Germany.
Italy Japan and the Soviet union were all germanys friends. Only 1 didn't turn there backs on Germany.
And one more thing.
It's true that Yamato was powerless against ten aircraft carriers.
But what if the opponent was just one aircraft carrier?
What if it was a one-on-one battle?
Even then, it would be impossible for Yamato to defeat an aircraft carrier. Yamato was not that fast.
But I don't think a single aircraft carrier would have been able to stop Yamato from heading for Okinawa.
It all comes down to how you use it.
What if ten Yamatos were to enter Washington DC?
Could ten aircraft carriers stop that?
I don't think it would be possible.
Even in the "age of the aircraft carrier," Yamato would be useful if used in that way.
If America had built Yamato, they could have used it more effectively.
In other words, it was Japan's weakness that was the problem, not that Yamato was weak.
I think your audio is a bit low.