>Largest battleship ever made
>Doesn't participate in any major battles of the pacific theatre
What went wrong?
Battleship Yamato
Carson Stewart
Dominic Thomas
Horribly outdated design after the supremacy of naval aviation. Preserved as a propaganda piece.
Liam Peterson
>Falling for the battleship meme.
Nevermind that by WW2, aircraft and projectors of aircraft were rapidly stealing the role away from capital ships, even in older eras, they were built more for intimidation than actual warfare. They were too expensive and big of an investment in national prestige to risk in any but the most dire of circumstances, and thus not useful for the actual rough and tumble of war.
Benjamin Gray
H O T E L
Isaac Williams
Battleships were irrelevant in WW2.
Gabriel Jackson
That's not true. It took part in one.
Ryan Hall
I was aware of that but I didn't count it because:
1. It's not really a major battle
2. Yamato ran away as soon as shit started to get serious
Carter Bell
Are there still Japanese historical groups petitioning to raise her?
Gavin Diaz
the meta changed and battleships were rendered obsolete. Rather than supporting it with AA destroyers and trying to put it to use they turned it into a glorified shore battery.
probably wouldn't have done well even with AA support honestly.
Noah Stewart
>raising a 65,000+ ton object the ocean floor
Don't see that happening anytime soon.
Christopher Cooper
Jacob Morgan
Japanese seem find with desecrating its memory with anime jailbait, so I doubt disturbing war graves would matter much.
Joseph Sanchez
Carriers still had a major weakness in that they were utterly useless at night. Battleships were still king of the sea during hours of darkness.
Jaxson Smith
Pretty sure its actually at least two objects
Dylan Young
The Yamato's wreck was never located, but Musashi is still more or less intact despite being sent to the bottom of the ocean.
Daniel Hall
It will save the Earth from hostile aliens one day.
Liam Brooks
>Hostile
Daily reminder that human scum shot first.
Ryder Murphy
Da fuck? Night carrier raids were carried out. Not often, but then again, you didn't have nearly as many surface actions at night as you did during the day either.
Austin Moore
>jap battleline jumps a group of CVEs and their escorts
>LOSES
literally worse than italy tier
Jaxson Gutierrez
It was an okay ship without a mission.
It's AA systems were ahead of their time, just not better than a dozen destroyers, which would have cost less.
It's ability to deliver and receive fire was also among the best for BBs, but never likely to be tested, and never tested IRL.
Connor Campbell
The Japanese raised one of their destroyers sunk in the Pacific War and returned it to service after the War. Believe they kept the same name.
Carter Parker
At least we got legit surface action.
Jacob Williams
Better as a space ship
Daniel Gonzalez
God this battle gives me goosebumps every time I read about it.
A bunch of anti air ships get attacked by a full surface fleet half of which are capital ships.
What do they do? Fucking charge at full speed towards the enemy battle group. 7 tiny ships with less tonnage combined than a single battleship, and the escorts not only keep their charge mostly afloat, but they fucking win. Half the aircraft were dropping depth charges or doing dry runs to draw fire away from the few planes that had actual bombs on them.
It still seems like something you'd watch on the tv screen instead of something that actually happened. The fucking gonads on those ship captains must have weighed more than the ships they were stationed on.
Jackson Jackson
>The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Read it, it's even more nuts than you think.
Kevin Fisher
At least they let the Yamato go places.
>tfw still rusting away in Norway.
Cooper Wilson
>yfw one of the CVEs fucked up a cruiser by hitting the torps which exploded
CVE STRONK