If you still insist on using a proxy, then let us use the Scharnhorst in place of the Bismarck. Scharnhorst was brutally decimated (without the factor of a lucky shot a la Hood) and then sunk by the Duke of York. It was no contest, and the Scharnhorst didn't score a single hit on...
There was an even larger version proposed that hiked the displacement to 59,100t standard and 69,140 full load, but still retained the same basic 9-16in gun main battery, with the heavy AAA increased to 68-40mm. Freeboard and the area of the ship protected by armor would have been incre...
but it's still well under 40%. Fragmentation is the primary killer of people and things; secondaries are usually caused by metal impacting a sensitive explosive and getting it started. In WWII, the filler was TNT; many of today's projectiles/bombs use something like RDX or C-4, which is...
She comes to rest upside down in about 160 feet of water. Her pagoda superstructure is broken away but its stump still supports the hull. Authors Notes: [1] According to some sources, the explosion took place in Sagami Bay; however, numerous Japanese sources state it happened at Saeki. ...
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Their large tower superstructure, still supported by a tripod, was also new, and a distinctive trademark of IJN battleships. They were equipped with more modern rangefinders and powerful electro-optical instruments. Indeed, in the late 1920s all fire-control systems were upgraded. Additional platfor...
[9] Over 50 years later, the total number and location of all hits during this last attack are still under dispute. The DAR of MUSASHI confirms 11 torpedo hits (including two duds in port amidships area), ten bomb hits and six near-misses. [10] ISOKAZE, identified in this intercept ...
And within Germany it is stronger in the North than in the central regions. It is considerably stronger still in England, Spain, and Corsica, bound up with the phlegm of the former, with the hard heads of the latter nations... But the power to will is strongest and most astonishing in...
TheUnited Statesis a different case. A large carrier (CVA-58) of that name was actually laid down in 1949 but then cancelled. This was to be a very large ship (66,000+ tons) so that it could carry aircraft large enough to deliver atomic bombs, which at the time were still relatively...
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