Why they ever thought bumping the gun up to a 90mm i wont know

Becsuse the issue wasnt its gun

Only thing it had going with it was its powerful radial engine and being spacious inside

76mm in some cases wasn't sufficient (i.e. Panthers and King Tigers) 90mm proved more than sufficient for those

Why do you think USSR got the 85mm and 122mm on T-34 and IS-2/JS-2?, they were punching through with enough kinetic force that even if it didn't penetrate, the spalling was ridiculously large that the crew would be incapacitated

Large cannons are brutal

ISU-152 cannon could flip over tiger 1’s

If hit at the side

It could flip a tiger? Damn, now that's an impact.

And knock off the turrets of tiger II’s

Its a Howitzer round fired by a casemate TD, what do you expect?

Didn't realize the ISU-152 had that much punch to it.

I expected a lot, but not enough to flip a tiger.

ok, thats big and all but battleship guns, wow

The largests guns on any BB was the Yamato Class with 410mm

Okay, if we're on the topic of Battleships then... Can we bring them back? I wish we still had some giants roaming the seas.

Second being Iowa with 381mm

> Okay, if we're on the topic of Battleships then... Can we bring them back? I wish we still had some giants roaming the seas.
@Large H Expensive

Don't care how expensive, I'd love to just see them again.

But, seriously. You're right, they're really expensive for what they are and other ships can do a better job.

Yamato had 460mm guns

18 inch

ok, lets put this into perspective, a BB takes anywhere between 15k-38k men to operate, all of them have to be paid, then we have to do maintenance of the ship periodically, for a ship the size of 300+ Meters, its a hefty fee, then its ammo, we need to not only modernize the breech, it uses a specific powder to launch the shell which is no longer in production

> Yamato had 460mm guns
@Hot babe VK168.01 (P) Thanks for the correction, I have vertigo still

@PantherUnit01 so did bismark

Yamato was 264 meters and Iowa class 270 meters

but, two gun turret in stead of three

Understood

But still, they are expensive ships

which is why we moved to Cruisers and DD's

No there is an Yamato design with 6 540mm guns but normal Yamato has 9 460mm guns

> No there is an Yamato design with 540mm guns but normal Yamato has 9 460mm guns
@Hot babe VK168.01 (P) Yeah, the Super Yamato or the I class hull BB's, they were blueprints and a Keel placed the 540's wout be 2 barrel and had an effective range of 18km

Wait only 18km ? Lol

Max range was more, but beyond 18km is not a guaranteed hit

Recoil was problematic

I believe that Germany had plans to build a battleship that had 3 3-gun turrets each armed with 800 mm guns

Thats the key word, PLANNED

They had no way for that to happen realistically

Look at the P1000 Ratte

A battleship sized Heavy tank

You'd have to be insane for that to be real