Is it fair to say that the Imperial Japanese Navy of WW2 was the second strongest navy to ever be fielded in war...

Is it fair to say that the Imperial Japanese Navy of WW2 was the second strongest navy to ever be fielded in war, second only to the USA during WW2?

I also mean, when I say during war, to not count technology. But commanders, fighting style, etc.

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there's probably a better british navy in the age of sail days, top 10 probably though

Third strongest. UKs fleet was way stronger.

RN was easily a match for the IJN in WW2. Inb4 muh carriers, RN had carriers and had extensive experience using carriers in combat, in fact far, far more than the Japs. RN had worse aircraft but RN had airborne RADAR and could attack at night.
Also you have to go back, redditspacing OP.

Also RN had competent firefighting and downed-pilot retrieval doctrine, whereas IJN were fullblown retarded in both fields by comparison. The IJN doctrine ensured that the navy itself was wholly incapable of fighting a long war.

You realize that WW2 era UK fleet includes the commonwealth, so Australia, Canada, NZ, South Africa, etc. Not just the mainland + colonies

inb4 some faggot pretends the Japanese sinking a battleship and battlecruiser with some destroyer escorts using land based aircraft proves the IJN had a better navy

You're pants on head retarded if you think a mass carrier showdown between the RN and IJN in 1942 ends with anything other than the Royal Navy task force becoming a coral reef.

Except there was a carrier show down in 1942 and it ended with the Kido Butai never finding the RN fleet while the RN found and bombed the KB twice at night.

Japs didn't have the great British secret weapon RADAR
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>UKs fleet was way stronger.
The Japanese obliterated them without breaking a sweat. It was a massacre.

You're 4 posts too late and barred from further posting by this inb4.

Except unlike the Japanese, bong naval aviation was shit-tier, so retrieving pilots really didn't do them any good.

Sorry, but the bongs got their shit pushed in everywhere, not just off the Malayan peninsula.

When?

>Muh Prince of Wales
>Muh Repulse
>IJN best naby, sank no British ships but IJA did

>Except there was a carrier show down in 1942
...and the bongs ran like scalded dogs for Africa, they were so cowardly.

The retarded bong iron coffins were sunk by IJN aircraft, contrary to Bongistani propaganda.

If they were easily a match for the IJN why exactly did they let America do all the heavy lifting against them..?

>Genzan Kokutai
>Kanoya Kokutai
>Mihoro Kokutai
>Naval based air units
Why bark yourself when you have a dog to do it for you?

>Why bark yourself when you have a dog to do it for you?
>Why not surrender and retreat everywhere in the face of the enemy?
FIFY

That's fucking rich coming from an American who needed to base themselves in Australia after being well and truly btfo in 1941

That's fucking rich coming from a subject that needed the Americans to step in and keep Oz women from being raped because its idiot subjects were being kept overseas by their lords and masters, who didn't care if the women got raped.

which worked out for everybody, as Oz women seemed to like BAC.

>what is taranto