Hood was sunk by fluke effectively, and Bismarck’s green gunners would agree with that statement.*Looks at USS Texas*
See, could have been built diffrent and survived
I'm just having fun with ya.Hood was sunk by fluke effectively, and Bismarck’s green gunners would agree with that statement.
I'm just having fun with ya.
A much newer American BB suffered massive injury during the Leyte gulf. Where it couldn't shoot back and was a sitting duck
The fact that BATTLESHIP managed to pull a sneak attack shows how awesome that battle wasUSS South Dakota suffered extensive but entirely superficial damage with zero penetration of her armor belt after her electrical systems were knocked out by a technical failure (on a brand new ship that had been rushed into service without proper working up), and the situation turned around because the Japanese became so stupidly target fixated that they managed to let another American battleship sneak attack them.
The fact that BATTLESHIP managed to pull a sneak attack shows how awesome that battle was
One of the last BB on BB fights to ever happenYep, and USS Washington absolutely wrecked the *shit* out of Kirishima with an absolutely decisive demonstration of the U.S. Navy's best-in-the-world fire control. She straddled Kirishima with her very first salvo, scored a solid hit on the second salvo, and then an unheard-of six hits on the third salvo. In all, Washington scored twenty hits out of seventy-five main caliber-rounds fired, and utterly destroyed Kirishima in seven minutes flat -- and that was with mistakenly ceasing fire for a minute thirty seconds after her fourth salvo, because Kirishima was hit and burning so badly already that it was erroneously reported she was sinking.
This was one of the most impressive displays of crack battleship gunnery ever.
USS Texas in drydock.
Afloat, yes. USS Arizona and USS Utah are both of the same era.What a fine old warrior. She’s the last super dreadnought of the Great War, as I understand.
She is.What a fine old warrior. She’s the last super dreadnought of the Great War, as I understand.
Also not sure how accurate it is. Some of the comments dispute it but the video is talking about sinking of naval vessels not just ships in general.