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Yamato had many issues mainly due to design choice & battle doctrine. Type 96 25 mm AT/AA for a start were not in triple but dual configuration amidship though 24 guns as 12 were increased to 162/ 81 as no evidence is certain of the experimental 3 gun arrangement. Mind even if the experimental arrangement was the Type 96 25 mm AT/AA that is a copy of the French 25 mm Hotchkiss autocannon was put on market by the French in the 1st place as they saw it as near obsolete in 1936, let alone when they sold them to Romania in 1938. The French military never used the 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun being rejected by command then exported as way to make up for the loses incurred. You put AA but it was dual purpose AA & AT gun & really it was more of a anti vehicle & light tank gun for it had the size of shell required for a dedicated AA gun. The USA have one nation to thanks for their victory more then any in the pacific & that is Sweden with their Bofors 40 mm gun that they sold the patent to the USA to make copies that they tweaked. Even Britain grabbed up Bofer's like hot cakes when they could as it matched or exceeded the aging British QF 2-pounder naval guns at fraction of the weight & cost. A Bofer's 40mm Maximum range was just over 7KM's being effective while the Japanese Type 96 25 mm AT/AA gun was is claimed to have a max range of 5.5 but even if so the shell is so small in flak area it is basically pointless. Type 96's was optimal at 1 KM though useable at 3.5Km which this autocannon was more effective against tanks then air assets in many ways. The Yamato even had At shells taking up space in case of facing tanks in shore bombardment but you have 5 to 18 inch guns so frankly what is the point? Japan lost ww2 before it began when the took licence for the Hotchkiss 25 mm Autocannon in 1935 but France made a pretty penny. The Japanese would have been better of using more 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun as it wasn't great AA but as a dual-purpose it was pretty nifty for it at least had shells larger enough to fulfil AA role. Even if up gunned from dozen 5 inch guns to say a hefty 3 dozen/36 DP guns it would have likely still been over run by the Air. Japanese can call Type 93 heavy machine gun to be a an AA gun but it wasn't anything of the sort. 4 of them in 2 dual configurations which were obviously for preventing boarding of the vessel which that it would serve well. Personally 4 was over the top as 3 would serve well enough if 2 rear to aft opposite sided with 1 on the bow at front. We British have a adage-saying; ''A camel is house made by committee'' The Yamato is a perfect example of a Camel it works but it was not what was requested-required for the job at hand. The yamato's true useful speed was 16 knots at cruise for it could only go 27 knots for a very short time as the 12 boiler would not handle the pressure then require maintenance. Some sailing vessels could exceed 18 knots so what is the point of a battleship that can keep up with sailing vessel if they flee? The Yamato was a lumbering hulk with only 12 guns of 5 inch's suited to anti-air in any real regard. Mind the Yamato was more a matter of moral & prestige then anything practical!

Do keep in mind the French were aware of the anti air short comings but funnily selected the Schneider 37 mm autocannon as they were more concerned with war against Britain then Germany funnily. When ww2 did kick off against France & Germany in September of 1939 the French found themselves in a major pickle as they even resulted to converting 75mm Schneider guns to take up the shortage with limited contribution as only 190 odd guns were used in this role on a gun model made in 1917. The French had good gear over all but lacked any meaningful; numbers for AA guns & production was no were near what was required for the Dewoitine D.520 only had 900 if that made before France capitulated. Give France a reliable 40MM calibre AA gun & double it's aircraft production & that war would likely have been very different but the awful conflicting battle doctrine of France mired in politics would still have been present so Germany would have achieved victory but at much higher cost. France was still in ww1 & Britain had the most up to date navy of the time & could throw out fighters quicker then the Jerries' could hope to destroy them but Germanies real set back was every lost plane equated 5to a lost pilot but Britain could bailout over it's own territory to fight another day if anything got prickly. "He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again." - Aeneas Tacitus. We Brits heed the ancients advice even if it might lead to out mockery on occasion but especially we Englishmen have a very different mentality to battle compared to the continentals let alone the Germans & the Japanese who frankly have a death wish. If your efforts will not secure any objective or victory then why fight? It is not a matter of cowardice but simple acceptance of the reality 1 can find themselves in for even the greatest mind can on occasion be caught out without any usable preparation or means to improvise. You can barely lose, if never fought when your chances were near none?;) Nothing wrong with scuttling the ship to the boats &or running to the hills after burning camp to revaluate your options.

Minute 13: you say rhey dropped torpedoes from a height of 500 feet. Do you mean 50 feet? From 500 feet they would hitvthe water too hard and sink.

Those sound affects in the background are horrible. I had to turn it off. Do it without them!

Thanks for sharing!

As they show the blueprints of Spaceship Yamato at the end 😅

You did your dad a favor by not asking.

Many, many of those guys wouldn’t talk about much or any of their experiences. My Dad’s best friend was on Iwo Jima and he would never talk about that time. Or at least not to me. He did however talk about some of his time guarding Japanese prisoners as part of the occupation force on the home islands after the war was over. Don’t hold it against him for not talking to you about those things, those guys all had it way tougher than most of the rest of us could tolerate over 10 lifetimes and never had any help with their mental health once they got back home. All of them had some sort of issues from the war, even if they kept it hidden from family and friends.

You do know that the IJN would routinely execute downed flyers and the crews of captured ships?

Excellent comment.

Search also for "Lestrade" "Pacific Theatre" "Yamato" "pdf".

They didn’t have Google, KZfaq, Instagram or TikTok that’s why they could do it… our brains are scrambled eggs from all of this 😬

Don't Touch our Boats! FAFO

When does Godzilla get here in this movie?????

Haha I knew I'm not the only one who spotted it 😂

I was confused for a second seeing that. Then I realized. *UCHU SENKAN TO TAMATO!*

@@bonehead2768 Not in this movie but the Kagero class destroyer Yukikaze was in the final battle of Godzilla Minus One.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Star blazers

I have read his book and it was incredible read

We already read that event before.. he was lucky he survived and ended up in a hospital back in Japan…

Read his book, 'Japanese Destroyer Captain'. Well written, consise, and well worth the time spent in it. Side note, he was a part of the squadron that ran into (literally) JFK that night in the Solomons.

Yup, I spotted it a few seconds into this segment. Very sneaky and very cool! :D

Yes, I guess they built it to fight the Gamilons. Very forward thinking.

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​@@willhookeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato

Battle of Pluto video incoming? Lol

A whole generation gave their lives for the Emperor. It was a tragic waste.

@@Zerox_PrimeSenseless waste of lives and material.

@@Zerox_Primetheir emperor was short and weak.

hahah i noticed it too xD

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@@HoH You thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.

Thank you for the kind comment - I'm happy you like my style.

This is the first time hearing about the over-fueling.

Most of the crews didn't know about the fuel order. The decision was made by the senior officers of the squadron and the commander of the fuel depot to give them a fighting chance of surviving.

very brave blokes, toughest generation ever, grew up in the great depression then thrust straight into the absolute hell of WW2, total respect !!

Except they were too afraid to use it because they didn’t want to chip the paint

It is computer generated so many errors

Definitely computer generated 😆 "it's entire crew of three, twenty six men" 😅

Just became the largest naval target of the war.

This is the best way to describe it.

I feel like battleships were more of a fleet in being that forces enemies to plan around them, so they still had an impact

I agree. The other naval powers had the resources to correct that mistake. The IJN didnt.

@@Thor13332 Only the US had the resources to cripple themselves by building battleships and keep going just fine (and that’s not because they were smarter about this than anyone else, but because the US war economy was such a juggernaut even self-sabotage didn’t affect it that badly). Everyone else badly sabotaged themselves by making that mistake, with Germany likely being the worst offender in this regard.

@@jasonhe5578 The enemy could just ignore them most of the time, the enemy just didn’t know it. All the cases of the British desperately trying to keep Tirpitz contained? They were all completely pointless because Tirpitz was effectively harmless from the start, due to lack of fuel and being a battleship in the carrier era (and a badly designed one too compared to everyone else’s useless battleships)

Russians have a navy. What good is that to them? Same situation with China. No repair ports outside their territorial water.

Can an Iowa class battleship sustain 18in shells damage? How resilient was Yamato armor v.s. 16in shells. Which ship had the best fire control system and rangefinders? Speed, maneuvrability, crew, commander, damage control,... Luck...

Admiral Deyo's bombardment group, consisting of the older standards, was also alerted to prepare for surface battle, as the fast battleships (both American and British) were non in the best positions for intercept. The Colorados' et al. did not have the speed to force battle, but if Yamato was coming on anyway, you could have seen West Virginia, Tennessee and California, all with the most modern Type 8 fire control systems (wartime refits), taking the lead (if possible from a rain squall or other cloud cover from where they could have used radar targeting).

@@mechanicsfield2266. Only disadvantage was the Iowa class could not sustain hits from the 18.1’s. However, the Iowas had better fire control & radar guidance, and they could also dictate terms of battle with their superior speed. A more fun idea would be the 12 16in broadside from the Montana class that were never to be.

@@stuartwald2395. Well said.

@@bri-manhunter2654 Drachinifel did a great creation/presentation of a 4 on 4 battle between TF34 (with Iowa and New Jersey) and Center Force (with Yamato). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZupf7qVvqvGioU.html

You have a mate that is a computer voice ?

Wait until you see the video about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, next Saturday!

It's kinda infuriating to think about. All these brave young men thrown away for "honor".

A lot of those guys were roasted alive when Boxcar visited Nagasaki.

@@Barwasserall because the japs couldn’t “lose face”. How Pathetic!!

You found the space easter egg 🧐

I thought it looked a little weird, now it makes sense.

But her secondary bridge was on the bottom.

Thanks, that's a great recommendation. I hope there are some detailed sources available about this, I'll check the library on Monday.

Thank you for sharing.