World of Warships - Know Your Ship #16 - Iowa Class Battleship
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Episode 16 of Know Your Ship! In this educational video I cover the Iowa class battleships commissioned by the United States Navy during World War 2. These fast battleships were designed to fight against Japan's big gun battleships. However, they spent the majority of their WW2 careers escorting carriers. While many people claimed that the age of the battleship passed at the end of World War 2, the Iowa class battleships would prove them wrong by taking part in Korea, Vietnam, the Lebanese Civil War and Desert Storm. All four Iowa ships can be seen today in various different museums. Admirals, get to know these amazing Tier 9 US battleships before taking command of them in World of Warships! Enjoy and see you all in battle!
Footage from this video from:
"Battleship - Narrated by Hal Holbrook" - Discovery Channel - VHS
"The Great Ships - Broadside Collection - Battleships" - History Channel
"Hero Ships - USS New Jersey" - History Channel
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I served as a gunners mate in turret one on the Uss Iowa. It was an awesome feeling firing those guns. It was also cool knowing you were impervious to anything except a submarine attack.
David Smith Thank you for your service, must have been one hell of an experience to be inside turret one :D
iChaseGaming It was unless your claustrophobic lol. We should hook up in game. I have the North Carolina and am grinding toward my Iowa.
David Smith 1st DIV. 1987-89. When did you serve? Were you onboard 4/19/89?
***** Yes, 1st division, wasn't that the deck division that helped man turret 2?
Amazing.
I hope I wasn't the only one who teared up when they started talking about how the New Jersey and Missouri were turned into museums instead of ingloriously scrapped like common cargo haulers.
Those are some damn fine ships. Damn fine. The world will never see their like again.
Maddog3060 A feeling I certainly share, I saw the Wisconsin in Norfolk, was completely awed.
kenneth mcgriff, u got that info. from Battle 360 lol
kenneth mcgriff USS New Jersey tore the Vietnamese apart. Her history was pretty good. Their service in Korea and Vietnam shows that carrier craft can still be shot down-- shells cannot.
*****
yeah missiles can also be stopped by CIWS, but shells can't be stopped like that
kenneth mcgriff
and shore bombardment isn't worthless after all. It greatly soften the shore defense before an invasion.
Emotional video for me . Its sad we will never see ships like that in action ever again. Today's warfare is too small for such a grand lady. At least through World of Warship we can still maintain her memory as the most powerful warship ever built.
When the Missouri was deployed in the Gulf War, she was fitted with Phalanx, SAM missles, Tomohawk cruise missles & her 16" guns. Legend goes, when the 16" inchers opened up on the enemy, they all retreated & moved their equipment more than 30 miles inland.
The Iowa class battleships are by far my Favorite battleships. And could still be a major threat to modern warships with their mixture of modern radars, tomahawk cruise missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, phalanx missile defense systems, dual purpose twin 5" guns and her primary 16" guns with RC spotter planes and black hawk helicopters she is one of the most heavily and diversely armed ship ever to sail the seven seas
ALL the Iowa Class ships were the zenith of U.S. battleship construction. It would have been amazing to see what the Montana Class would have looked like but unfortunately, we'll never know. I was able to visit both the USS New Jersey and the USS Wisconsin the fall of 2014. The Wisconsin is beautifully kept. The New Jersey is a totally different story. The people that have been given the honor of keeping New Jersey in excellent condition have failed dismally. They should be ashamed at how they have let that ship deteriorate. as badly as it has. It really makes me mad as hell. All four of those ships have a fighting soul. They are deserving of having their appearance of beauty and strength maintained during peace time as they did during times of war. The Iowa Class Battleships and the HMS Hood Battlecruiser to me, are the most beautifully designed fighting ships.......EVER!!
I really enjoyed this show,have met many veterans from these ships,I'm in awe of all of them and could listen them for hours on end,thanks to all of them for their service!!
The era of the battleship will always be remembered and honored with humbling admiration of their crews these beautiful girls will never be forgotten!
I grew up and currently live close to the uss Iowa. She will always have a special place in my heart
respect to all the men who served upon them and who have died for there countries so that we can all be here today
Omg, These ships are Huge! Today I wen on USS Iowa in California.
I live about 20 min from The USS New Jersey, I love going to see her. I like taking people who have never been there to see the ship :)
When the Missouri was deployed in the Gulf War, she was fitted with Phalanx, SAM missles, Tomohawk cruise missles & her 16" guns. Legend goes, when the 16" inchers opened up on the enemy, they all retreated & moved their equipment more than 30 miles inland.
A battleship can inspire so much fear. Makes me wonder what the sailors aboard Rodney and King George V were thinking when the were setting sail to engage the Bismarck.
Y'know, if these ships were modernized, (railguns, nuclear reactors, Phalanx guns, Tomahawks and AA missiles) they'd easily be the most powerful ships afloat. It'd be expensive, but these ships have paid for themselves over and over again, so surely we could spare a bit more to refit them and keep them relevant _another_ fifty years.
A ship of the Iowa Class is the ship. Yes, THE ship!
Even beside this documentary I think these were The ships. The Iowas define the meaning of ship.
Majestic Iowa class all day long \0/
I really cannot under stand the somewhat silly adoration for these ships. As a class none of them did any real fighting and they were not even the best of sea boats. They really did nothing to deserve being preserved. If you wanted to preserve some WW2 ships then why not pick some of the aircraft carriers? At least they earned the honour of preservation whilst the Iowa's clearly didn't.
@@ukexpat6893 A, the Iowas were the longest and fastest battleships ever built
B, They were the most powerful ships ever built by the US navy
C: They were the longest served battleships of any country
D: While it is true they never really sunk anything of note, with Missouri and Wisconsin never coming into contact with an enemy vessel, Iowa sinking a training ship, and New Jersey sinking an armored fishing boat, a destroyer, a training cruiser, and a few small Vietnamese warboats, they did have cool feats in their service history. Iowa housed the US president Rosevelt for a nine day journey and was the first of her class. New Jersey "sunk" an island and is the most decorated battleship in the US navy, and the signing of the declaration to end ww2 happened aboard Missouri's deck. Missouri was the last battleship to use her main guns in anger. Wisconsin, however, never really had anything of note.
While I like the Yamato, Sharnhorst, Washington, and Warspite more, the Iowa, New Jersey, and Missouri all remain some of my favorite battleships of all time, and they definitively deserve to be preserved
Also, we have five preserved carriers, and yes, I know your comment is five years old
I know one thing I'm putting on my bucket list, visit all four Iowa-class battleships.
+Destroyer831642 goin to the Jersey this summer. mm2 12 years 3 ships but gotta see this one
its worth it you can smell the soul of these ships
I've visited the Iowa multiple times. One down, three to go
That was a pretty good history lesson on the Iowa's. Reading some of the comments about bringing them back from museum pieces and installing rail guns and LAWS, is interesting, but I think impractical. They would make a good platform for these advanced weapons. Of course if they were ever to see action and be sunk or be badly damaged we would lose a great American warship. They are better off as floating museums, saved from the scrap heaps that have taken other lesser yet just as deserving warships. If you have a chance to catch a tour of one of the four (or maybe all four) I would highly recommend it. Maybe someday, the Navy will find a a need for a fully modern Battleship once again.
Paul Ayala I've already visited the Wisconsin, but I would love to see the inside of the ship someday :) Missouri perhaps :D
I have been on the tour of the Iowa with my sons Boy Scout Troop. I would really like to see the Mighty Mo @ Pearl Harbor though.
Iowa was my 1st ship. Decommisioned her at Hunters point
Tom van derslice Really interesting :) ty for your service
Dude you are lucky
did you hear her guns roar??
i still have to serve on a shitty german navy destroyer
i live in Missouri, and I would love to go see the mighty MO!!!
I too am from Missouri, and would love to walk on the decks of the Mighty MO. I would also like to see her 3 sisters as well. IMHO, they are the most beautiful ships to sail the Earth's oceans.
the MO didn't get bombed in the war
Bob The Builder Dupstep then whats floating in pearl
coyote16able it is floating in Pearl Harbor
yes because a massive battleship that serves as a museum with USS Missouri painted on it is such a fake
I was on board the USS Missouri during fleet week in Seattle. Sadly after she left Seattle they sailed to California and offloaded the ammo and then came back to Seattle to start the decommissioning process but it was still cool to stand on the very spot were WWII ended and walk the decks of a active duty battleship and we even got to go up on the bridge.
4:14 yeah, i call bull, the 18 inchers on the Yamato class, the barrels were too short for that to be reality, plus the weight and size of the shell had greater drag than the iowa class 16 inches, so the iowas can out range Yamato, and be safe.
Hopefully sometime in the near future, I'll be able to visit the ship named after my state, the USS Iowa. Ever since she was saved from scrap and even before that, I've wanted to see her in real life.
HarmsWay I would love to see the Iowa too :)
I have. She is awesome. Do see her, you'll always remember that ship.
I live close to her, and have been on her several times. It's quite an amazing experience. I recommend it
This is AWESOME !! Great work man! Keep it up! Best of luck to you ! :)
MrSar101 Thank you :D
I worked the gas ingestion system for the Tomahawks on the Jersey....SLQ-32 on the Missouri....sea trial on the Missouri....captains said I was indispensable....
beautiful just beautiful...
Sadly that first narrator believes Iowa had the greatest AA. 20 5-inch mounts isn’t impressive, considering the North Carolina class achieved that before any of the Iowas were launched.
This is the absolute peak of Battleship engineering.... high speed, good armor, powerful long range guns topped with the best sensors and technology of the 1940’s / 1980’s.... Yamato might’ve been bigger.... but Mighty Moe and the Iowa class battleships had the best of both eastern and western technology and adaptabilities.... just my opinion at least
They had powerful guns, capable if rivaling Yamato's penetration power from long ranges due to a higher muzzle velocity and great plunging fire, and had very accurate guns and great speed. She did suffer from below average armor and bad sea keeping.
for those of you wondering 3 million days is equal to 8219.178082 years thats how long it woulda taken one dude to make an iowa battleship if you ignored the fact that some tasks require more then one dude.
So far my favorite ichase!
Thank you for showing my state and many others two the Navy supports you
tony schwinke :) thank you
We should upgrade the Iowa to have railguns and laser weapons as well as two 1.5 terra watt fusion reactors.
John Oster lol...might be too cost prohibitive
The refit would cost approximately 250billion without the reactors. With the reactor an excess of 2 trillion.
Usuc midicq yeah... that would be cancer in any region, no one ever will shoot her cause if she explode the whole region will get rekt xD
Nah Thorium closed reactors dont spew out radiation.
Usuc midicq so its not good then :c
My great grandfather served aboard Wisconsin and flew her Kingfisher aircraft during WW2 and had saved splashed pilots that were American, English, and Japanese. My brother has a photo of him within the Kingfisher, my father has his Japanese sword that he had received during his time aboard Wisconsin and my grandfather has hit Veteran cap, medals, etc. My uncle has the plank that’s given to the people who served aboard her.
That's rather cool
Fun fact: Of the ten battleships the U.S laid down and launched before and during WWII, 7 of them survived to be preserved as museum ships.
+DASCO2136 Wish we Brits did the same thing, a crying shame we scrapped all of ours.
+David Fisher yes, imagine touring the Rodney!
And one of them is my home state Iowa class BB (BB-64)
Sad thing that they've scrapped the CV-6 Enterprise. She and her crew were amazing back in WW2.
Sad Fact : The British on the other hand......didn't do the same. Not one of their WW1 or WW2 era battleships were preserved......
This video gave me Chills..i have a book of world war 2 .battle in the philippines.. im a filipino..thank you USA our great and powerful ally
I just liked the Iowa without the modern modification like those missiles. it just felt better if there were no missiles, at least rendering her big guns more useful. Today, we don't need ships with big guns, all we need are ships of any size but carrying so much missiles and thats so boring...really boring...agree?
WOW!!! Great info on the ship! :0
JERSEY, REPRESENT!!!!!
God I love that ship
Sandra :D Good to hear
This is definitely one of my most favourite American if not my favourite ship that has ever sailed
What modern ship could possibly perform shore bombardment better than battleship?
Answer: None!
yes but big naval targets gets killed by cruise missiles long before it reaches enemy shores
megarogerish That is not true these days with Better CWIS systems. Which the Iowa class have 2 each.
+Roger bit cruise missiles can't beat 6inch armour
you can manipulate missiles using flares, decoys, and various electronic countermeasures. But you can't stop 16 inch shells coming right at you
Sal_RM3 a white flag can
Beautiful works of engineering.
There were other Iowa class battle ships. They were stopped before completion. Kentucky was 70% complete when stopped.
John White an she was used to repair Wisky
*Insert Kancolle Iowa reference here*
"Admoral"
"OH SHIT!!! Ugh..."
I stenciled all the pipes in the engine room and fire rooms, and the gun turrets
You are now one of my favorite youtubers keep up the good work ;)
Jorge Chavez Thank you :D Stay tuned, many more episodes coming
my grandfather was stationed on the new jersey before it was even finished, he was the turret commander of the beast guns in front of the bridge
phcasper That's incredible! It's awesome to have someone in the family that served aboard a ship like this. I hope he's told you some awesome stories ^_^
iChaseGaming he was at the drydock seeing the crane lowering his gun into position, I he's passed away now, and I was a little kid when he's told his stories all the time
PROUD to have served on a Bttlewagon
New Jersey and the Iowa are the only Iowas that ever engaged an enemy surface ships
Yep, during a raid on Truk, Iowa sank a training cruiser, while New Jersey sank an armored fishing ship, a destroyer, and a training ship.
Watching these old documentaries just tells me that aircraft carriers are just to damn unreliable. I'm just waiting for some incident where aircraft are made pretty much useless overnight. Then the battleships will be back kicking ass again.
dc71knox pros of CVs they can save you from long distance land bombers, give you air support, they are floating airbases, and the most American thing we have. Cons of CVs they can melt-down, turn into a massive bonfire at sea, big target, can become an Japanese airfield (holes everywhere), and defenseless in a naval gun engagement. pros of BBs big and menacing, armed to the teeth, like a cat (annoying and dangerous), is going to win a gun engagement, can fire shells that aren't accurate but explosive, and can project power cons of battleships Yuge target, worse off against missiles, can lose a turret, can get surprised by submarine and can get focused to death
May they forever be at peace
I kinda cried half way through and on the video
I worked on the Iowa at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Prior to her recommissioning. Why is it never mentioned that she was at Ingalls.
They say that the accident on the Iowa was never explained. This is not true, the sailors on board were ordered to try experimental powder charges that did not handle ramming operations the same was as the legacy charges. Against the recommendations of the seasoned sailors BTW. When the last bag was rammed home the friction caused the detonation.
Pubturtle :( RIP
8:30 Imagine what's gonna happen in WOW. The Iowa eats like 10 torpedos and sunk without even knowing where those DDs are.
Correct me if I'm wrong. By the time the war ended, didn't they have the hull complete of the Illinois and the keel down of the Kentucky? Of course with the war over they never finished construction of those two Iowa class battleships.
John Kent Yes that's correct, the Kentucky's bow was actually used to repair the Wisconsin, hence her nickname the Whisky :)
I live in Wisconsin I'm glad we got a big fucking ship
I do too 😀 so glad we got a OP BB
+creepycreeper099 , are you in Millwaukee
+That air soft Kid no Wausau
+creepycreeper099 , o that's cool
I live just outside Philly. We got New Jersey right across the bridge in Camden. I remember driving over the Philly shipyard while the Iowas were still at least semi-active and in refit. I was just stunned by the sheer size and amazing lines of the those old battle wagons.
Battleships are coming back. They are the DG-1000 and her sister ships that will employ the new RAIL cannons that will have 3 times the strike range of a carrier.
Nathan Jones They aren't battleships but they are the closest thing we'll have to them.
+Ash Jones i believe that rail cannons can only fire line of sight. They cant fire past the horizon. Missiles are far more effective.
Incorrect max range of 110 miles away man that's WAY over the horizon.
Bob Jack Plus 50 cents each post and GL on 12 hr. work days man you fool no one:)
This aged like milk
You've earned yourself a subscriber!
david121912 Cheers! :D
I hope they add BB-63 U.S.S Missouri. That battleship was a beast.
godzilla691138MW3 Her design was no different than the other Iowas so likely they'll just keep at the Iowa at tier IX
Nathan Peterson they could add Wisconsin for ranked rewards why? She could have the fastest speed of any battleship 37.7kts and for a random fact she could be longer then any of her sisters by 11ft
info about Iowa - Class ship:
best part: fast
worst part: weak
depending if it good or not: armor, power
info about Yamato:
best part: turrets, power
worst part: don't have that much protection (execpt armor), speed
depending is it goods or not: power
which of the iowa ship did YOU like?
which iowa ship did you think it will launch to battle at WW3?
Hong Hayun I personally really like the Wisconsin, since I've seen that ship in person. But I'm pretty sure I'll love them all :) As for which one would start WW3, I hope none of them because I sincerely hope WW3 never starts.
WW3 will start because of terrorist attack happen most of this time after WW2. Pretty much the morden war/battle always start at land and sea. Past war/battle are always battle at land (unleast they have ships to battle). The World War never end until the end of the day (which is you can sucked by black hole). Or if there's a person who controls a whole world will say: "the World War era is over and no more world war battles".
BTW, you are telling from this vid everyone about in reality. Not in game because the company said that there's little bit different info about the ship in game. You are not telling us the real info in-game information ships
Hong Hayun Yes these videos are meant to talk about the ships in real life so when people play them in game, they'll know something about the virtual ships they are playing. When the time comes and the game is released I will make actual review videos for the ships in game.
thanks god...
I feel that ww3 will be big on airpower, and unfortunately we provably won't see as much tank action or warship action.
In this age of ICBMs, stealth aircraft, and pretty soon, lasers and railguns, it's not really a matter of who's got the best boat, but who has the longest range.
IE: an Iowa class wouldn't be much use against a ground installation sporting defenses capable of shooting down her sea to land cruise missiles, and could easily have her hull perforated by a land based railgun system once detected.
Ah that sound of that Antiair :O
Nice ty sir.
Popescu Liviu You're welcome :)
Iowa, and maybe New Jersey?, sank IJN Katori. Iowa and New Jersey, once Halsey realized he had been faked out of his jock strap, raced south hopefully to intercept the Yamato and its fleet. Why ignore Iowa's role in this event and time? Damn.
thanks chase
very nice
Phounkia Thank you :D Glad you liked it
FAMOUS...SHOULD BE PRESERVED
Eugenio Colussi filho Indeed :)
Today The Uss Iowa Is in San Pedro California I seen it a bunch of times
Great video
It seems theres a pattern here that everytime we decomission the battleships we end up having to use them again we should just keep them operational.
Will the Japanese battleship Mikasa be a low tier battleship in World of Warships. If so, can you devote a "Know your ship" to this battleship.
Wesley Grant As of right now, the lowest tier IJN BB is the Kawachi. I doubt the Mikasa would make it in though...much too low, maybe a premium? I'll cover it with an episode eventually
Looking forward to the World of Warships release. You're doing some great videos prior to release it shows in your following. Thank you! As for the IJN Mikasa, I've tour her & I think she would popular premium if they go round.
Wesley Grant She is in game as of two to three days ago (Tier II), however only on the EU server at the moment.
+Nathan Peterson just got the USS Albany. Overall I'm enjoying the open test server. If thay have Her on the EU server, there's a good chance to they might bring her over to the NA server. Thank you for the info.
go visit and help keep them going. its only like 18.00 to get to tour them
Isn't the shonan Maru is the recon whaling ship on whale wars
I wish the secondary's would work like that in game for battleships 😄😭
8:20 is HMS Barham exploding after her magazine detonated after being torpedoed by a German U-boat.
uss missouri is my favorite thanks
dorin suian She's a gorgeous ship ^_^ that's for sure. Have you ever visited her?
iChaseGaming maybe one day I will have the chance to visit as I am from romania thanks again
Not sure which of them is my favorite.
I visited Iowa and Wisconsin, need to visit the other two.
New Jersey has the coolest nickname and was THE battleship in Vietnam, apparently they wouldn't negotiate unless she was withdrawn and she killed many of the enemy and destroyed what she shot at.
been on the uss new jersey
iowas would have taken yamato , np . Why? because of there 100 mile radar, yamato would have been a burning mess by the time the spotting planes found her. No one can see a battleship 21 miles away, unless you have radar.
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you can't make assumptions like that
What makes you think the Yamato had no radar?
+Bobby Thoms I meant you'll never know witch would win. also I know about yamatos radar
Yamato's radar was only for navigation. Not for detection of ships. Plus it's fire control systems were very primitive. The fact that those 18 in guns were beast but also took a lot of time to rotate each turret and needed at least 2 minutes of reloading time
it still amazes me how the Missouri was in service until 1995
I've been aboard her in Norfolk
Have you been to Wisconsin the state of Wisconsin
i love the lowa
Sorry for the dumb question, what does USS stand for?
United States Ship
Does anyone know the movie "American Warships" ? ^^
TroMu Entertainment Yes, very low budget! But a very good movie!
Ben Henkel eeehhhhhhhh I beg to differ but that's your opinion and so is mine
or at least a revammped version of them
IOWA MY BABY!!!
The New jersey should of went back to Vietnam. Imagine how much better things would of gone.
RampantFury925 They reactivated her and then put her back into mothballs in a few months...talk about a waste
The reason they decommissioned her was because the linings for her 16" guns were worn out and they didn't have any replacements. After it was too late they found a whole field of them that had fallen off the inventory.
my grandfather was on the USS New Jersey in France during Vietnam lol
richard cutts Nope.
The shellfire of the New Jersey was so devastating to the Vietcong, that they demanded the ship be taken out of the conflict if peace talks were to continue, so the whitehouse itself had the New Jersey stand down. I would have loved for all 4 Iowa class to have been reactivated at the start of the conflict. It could have changed history. But then again such a change in history might have prevented my mom and dad from meeting, leading to me never being born.
where can that image at the end be found?
Hey if this is tier 9 what is the tier 10 battleship for the US?
Alex Burg What has so far been termed BB-66-2, it's to my knowledge an improved Iowa essentially on the fast US battleship line.
The improved iowas were to be called the Montana class fast battleship. Among the improvements were thicker armor, more powerful engines, larger, four 16/50 turrets, and many other smaller improvements. There was also two other Iowa class battleships that were still being built at wars end the USS Illinois BB-65 and the USS Kentucky BB-66. The Iowa class was a beautiful ship and they have stood the test of time with each at least 70 years old
Liam Flynn I have an episode dedicated to the Montana class battleship ruclips.net/video/x7ATkjRsECQ/видео.html
Is that Hal Holbrooke narrating?
i was on the ship right behind th nj when i blew up
do we know if they are going to have experimental ships? its widely assumed they will have unfinished designs given how yamato is a T10 and the iowa class is a T9, but going off of WoT I would think they would also have experimental craft but has it been confirmed?
thefanification Yep, we'll get paper designs in World of Warships (Montana at tier 10)
iChaseGaming but was the montana an actual experimental design or planned to go into full production? when I say experimental I mean like the shimakaze.
It's funny that they never mentioned the other 2 Iowa class battleships that were never completed...USS Illinois and USS Kentucky.
Which i find is complete bullshit because both states deserved a proper ship named after them.
***** The Ohio class SSBN-737 has been named Kentucky, and a Virginia class has been ordered to be named Illinois
those would have been two montana class battleships
Do you know if they'll add the german H44 super-battleship in the game?
BRICKSMASHTV I doubt it. That would just be way to op 20inch guns your kidding.
TheDinosaurKing they have but with 17in guns
very good question. perhaps as like as Triptz story.
one more thing lol, us steel was higher quality then japanese steel, just saying
would depths charges work on torps
Actually....
Great video keep it up:-)))also 154 subs.:-D
Dragan Savić Going up steadily :) Keeping me motivated to put more stuff up ^_^
iChaseGaming what about puting a wot video and also will review W.o.WS when it gose in to Open Beta(that wall be next year)in Open Beta the game will not be under NDA!:-))
Dragan Savić I will definitely be doing actual WoWS videos (reviewing ships, doing commentary etc) when the game goes Open Beta :P As for now, tons more ship videos to do, and when I've done as much as I can I'll do a mix of WoWS and WoT :)
iChaseGaming great stuff:-)))
iChaseGaming I don't suppose you'd know roughly when wows is suppose to enter open beta? i've looked everywhere and cant find anything
you say the Iowa class BB will be the American tier 9, with the Yamato holding the tier 10 place in the Japanese line and America having no later BB I can't see it holding any place other than tier 10 and the day will soon come when these 2 Dreadnoughts face off on the high seas
bleeckertb It's already confirmed that the Iowa is now a tier 9 and the Yamato a tier 10 and most likely the Montana will be at tier 10.
I'd imagine, since they use designs that didn't go into production in WOT, they'll use the Montana. That will be awesome.
iChaseGaming So does this mean they aren't going to do the rumored 2 lines of US battleships? I remember hearing before that there would be like a line of fast battleships with Iowa as t10 and a line of slower, heavier armed/armored line with the Montanas as t10? Whatever. Either way I'll be pretty excited to smoke people with those things either way.
iChaseGaming It is funny that an inferior ship to Iowa will be tier 10 while Iowa will be tier 9. I mean Yamato btw.
doesn't matter if Yamato is inferior or not, if they have nothing else to place as the tier 10
Heck ya Iowa class that's my state
The only battleship class used in the modern era before being permanetly decommissioned
titan133760 Well, the Iowa and Wisconsin ("Ole Whiskey") are in reserve and kept in a state of readiness, the Mighty Mo' (BB-63 Missouri) and the New Jersey are permanently decommissioned.
I thought Iowa and Whiskey were decommissioned.
titan133760 they are, but it's more like mothballs.
wonder in tier 9s and 10s battles we will mostly see aircraft carriers battling it out and the role of the battleships and cruisers is the last line of defense when the aircraft make it pass the destroyers in the outer ring but i don't thank that will be the cast due to we don't coordinate our attacks like in today's navy and i don't think theirs not a lot of money and XP to be made on taking down aircrafts. the way i seen it is the role of the destroyer is that of recon and skirmishers for the fleet and the bigger capital ships is bringing the firepower to the enemy in a line of battle like the ships of the line in the 1700s but with aircraft carriers it redefined naval warfare, well i don't think we can pull this kind of coordination in the game.
RuneMasterKnight We'll have to see how the tactics and strategy evolve over time, but I'm sure there would be some pretty awesome teamwork in the future
iChaseGaming wargaming? teamwork? you make me laugh, good sir!
epion660 I wouldn't shoot down that idea too quickly :)
I bet clans wars will be insanely awesome.
booieful List: Yamato, Yamato, Yamato, Iowa.
one more thing, yamato was taken out by around 250 planes, only shot down ten, its aa sucked. The iowa would have taken down 60 to 70, maybe more was a unreal beast against aircraft, just saying.
source? facts? or random assumption because 'murica
+Dubsy 102 American AA systems were much better than Japanese AA. Improved radar fire controlled and radio-proximity fuses on the 127 mm DPs played a big role.
+Graham Strouse AA is a numbers game at its core. The more AA you put up, the better off you are.
For instance the Iowa class could put out over 4x more sustained AA fire per minute than the Yamato could.
Add in superior fire control, radar guided 40mm bofors, and superior gun mounts. The Yamato is not even in the same league anymore.
As far as AA was concerned the Yamato was only about equal to a US cruiser.
True, it had 300 planes and only shot down 12 Yamato sucs
What is tier X, USS Montana?
GastrophetDrum Yup the Montana is at 10