Bismarck, Yamato or Arizona

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by CaptainNemo12

What happened to the Iowa class?:hmm:

You can always vote 'other'.

[kenijaru]

Bismarck, she's sexy and she's got one hell of a story. (or should I say "he" like Lindemann did?)

[PavelKirilovich]

Bismarck. Technologically she is superior in all aspects to the IJN Yamato and USN Arizona. One exception: Her RADAR equipment is inferior to the Arizona's (assuming Arizona would have been refit with updated technology). Bismarck's armour plate is superior to American Class "A" plate by a rather significant amount and her gunnery is superlative. As a battleship, the KM Bismarck is the terror of the seas.

By the by... why no Royal Navy option? RN had some pretty fierce battlewagons armoured with some very good ("CA," cemented armour) plate, even superior to what Bismarck was protected by.

[K-9]

The Arizona was a sister to the USS Texas, Both were built for WWI and were small enough to survive the "Washington Treaty" Limiting battleship size and production. Had the Arizona not been sunk at pearl harbor it would have likly been scrapped in 43 to build something else.

Name the only 3 battle in which Battle ships enguaged each other as they were ment too.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by K-9

Name the only 3 battle in which Battle ships enguaged each other as they were ment too.

2nd battle of Guadalacanal, Suriago Strait, the Bismarck vs Hood and Prince of Wales and her finale with KGV and the Rodney. You also could probably make an arguement for the 1943 North Cape battle. 'Battlecruiser' Scharnhorst was taken unawares and pounded by the HMS Duke of York in the frigid waters north of Norway.

[kiwi_2005]

Yamato for me, Bismark and Arizona come an equal 2nd.

Has anyone seen that CG documentary from HBO on the fate of the Yamato. Brilliant how they did it I watched it on Stage6 awhile back. A must see.

[BulSoldier]

IJN Yamato has the bigest guns ever but it showed the key weakness to every battleship(funny all of these BB had been sunk or damaged criticaly by airplane).

May be the bismark would win here simply because she had short but glamorous carrier.

[K-9]

Ok First time the BBs met in battle was during the Chrimean war. The russians had a bunch of mixed gun dreadnaughts, the Japs had the more modern big gun only BBs, the Japs mopped the Ruskies butts.

2nd Battle of Jutland WWI. The Germans, though vastly outnumbered and outgunned, managed to out manuver the British battle fleet, scoring some very serious hits. The Brits had not armored the decks of thier BB's and as a result suffered a couple of very serious hits. The Germans however would never sortie thier fleet again for the entire war and thier ships would later be scuttled in Scapa Flow after the war.

Final time was Seriguia Straight. This was really the only time in wich BBs of similar size and class met in a battle that had meaning, and outcome. The US Admiral managed to cross the T against the Japs, bringing all of the US guns to bear, and as a result inflicted heavy damage and turned the Jap fleet.

From 1890-1943 World navies consider the BBs the ultimate superweapon, even when faced with OVERWHELMING evidence that it was unlikely that the BBs would ever be used for thier intended purpose, and that they were vunerable to both plunging fire from BBs as well as smaller ships with large calibre guns, and Air attack. The Washington Treaty that limited the Size and construction of BBs prior to WWII was an attempt to stop an arms race between the US and Britian. It has been said that the Washington Treatie may have adversly affected both the US, and British Navies at the start of WWII, but it also likely prevented a war between the US and Briton in 1930.

I know you didnt ask, but thought you might be intrested. As far as my favorite BB. I would go with the Fairy Swordfish.

[joea]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Yamato for me, Bismark and Arizona come an equal 2nd.

Has anyone seen that CG documentary from HBO on the fate of the Yamato. Brilliant how they did it I watched it on Stage6 awhile back. A must see.

Yamato was great, but I voted other. My fave has to be the Warspite....no other ship did so much and saw so much at least in the RN, the KGVs are a bit underestimated. I do think the USN's best were the Iowa...just for the AA battery.

BTW kiwi awesome sig mate.

[Mush Martin]

Warspite would be my contender for greatest single battleship

but if we were talking designs that went to production then I
would pick Iowa which is what my vote for other will stand to
mean.