Message from @chaz
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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
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
Ah yes the H-45 class
This was also planned by the German army but never happened. Would've been a monster of a machine. (Maus for comparison.)
Maus looks like an toy compared to it
It's probably what they would have made if they won.
Also, H-45 class.
The Bismarck is 250 meters tho