The Most Massive Naval Weapon of World War II

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USS IOWA

That is all.

The Fletcher class destroyer made this ship look dumb. Yamato never sunk a ship and the real legend of the seas is Bismarck.

The most massive would be the atomic bombs.

The amount of armchair Admirals in the comment section is truly inspiring, at least the next few decades of naval strategy is not going to be an issue 🙄

Yes go navy 🇺🇸

Useless against determined air attack. :-)

The 16-inch guns of NJ Iowa class battleship are far million times better than the yamato 18-inch

Around 3 decades ago I read that in addition to the naval aircraft, ground based B17s were used to bomb the Yamamoto. Time life books ww2 series. True or not who knows.

This narration is word for word plagiarized from a Wikipedia article. Or did Wikipedia copy this narration? The may never know. Or care.

The N3 was designed in 1920, far earlier than the Yamato class. As for allied naval guns, HMS Furious had a single 18 inch (457 mm) gun as first constructed. It actually fired a heavier shell than the Yamato did.

what happened to the 510mm prototype

And yet it was defeated by taffy 3. And was the absolutely the biggest non factor in the battle.

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The biggest guns ever made, really?. Have a look at certain German railway guns.

The Japanese behavior in WWII proves that the most formidable weapon is the collective psyche and how you either use it for your advantage or flub it. The Japanese flubbed it.

What good did these two giants do. They lost them anyway? Yamato was on a one way suicide mission when it was sunk. Their I8inch guns can't stop bombs and torpedoes. When the Yamato went down it exploded and the explosion was heard hundreds of miles away.

The Battle Midway was a very decisive in the Pacific. The USA was never guaranteed anything.

The coming battles will not have any strength in prior weaponry. Worry.

Why do people refer to rifled guns as cannons? These are called guns, or naval rifles. Cannons are what captain hook would fire at other sailing vessels on the high seas. arrrr matey.

I think the Japanese were compensating for something!

Japan made a huge mistake when they decided to attack Pearl Harbor, thinking that the U.S. would not recover. Instead, the Japanese navy should have gone after the three aircraft carriers that were in the Pacific and destroyed at least two. That way Japan would have control of the Pacific ocean and then could have easily waltzed into Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. had a weapon that could rip your clothes off too.

Rail gun is awesome! Line of sight targeting, extremely long distances! 8" per mile squared! Oops!

Big white elephant, just like Hitler's railguns and maus tank

Bigger NEVER defeats stronger and more determined,lol,NEVER HAS NEVER Will!!!!

Two words: TAFFEY 3. They were tin can Navy vessels, yet they stopped an entire Japanese Armada.. Even either everything Japan had, why couldn't Japan stop Little Boy and Fat Man? So much for your entire video. Japan couldn't beat little TAFFEY 3 yet you claim Japan had weapons to beat the Allies. Don't you think if Japan had what you think they had, they would have used them? The only thing that Japan was good at was making life more miserable for the pows they captured and for the people they invaded. Ever heard of the Rape of Nanking? Apparently not.

strange the footage of american sailors shooting japanese survivors in the water with tommy guns is not shown ...........

IJN Yamato was lucky to escaped being destroyed by the USS Johnston DD-557.

Umm... These were the largest "in service" naval weapons... The IJN had previously designed the 18.9" naval gun, and were building the 20.1" for the design A-150 class battleships... They actually had a completed 18.9" gun captured in 1945...

Banzai!!!!!!

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ee-amato. lol it's yamato, not ee-amato

Don't think the US ever engaged the largest ever made. Just a few waterfalls around US escort carriers attacking the IJN at Samar in The Philippines - not a real engagement. And we really only have one account of a shell ever actually hitting a US ship in the escort carrier Gambier Bay. Other US loses were from torpedoes. Beehive rounds didn't seem to help Musashi against 5 waves of TDB's But there is some unseen before footage here of the naval yard construction. Kudos, ima omedeto gozaimasu

Yeah well we had bigger bombs so there ya go.

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möhr tv cälm. DRäkönn vväyke. Fant DReam ^^ interrestink däimce -:-

We Need ship yard's like that again but at a more modern rate

Isn't that how they do it, wipe out the carrier's first

What about the US today ? Is it dominated by the military as was Japan when it became an imperalist country ? Who is follwing currently whom in what footsteps ? What happens if the US is leading Japan back to its old military traditions ? Are we all returning to the past just to please the military and the related industry ? Or what other exactly is the purpose of the current developments in international politics ?

With the airforce nothing is safe, whom rules the skies, rules the world.

Shame the Iowas never got the opportunity to blow any of the other super battleships straight into the history books.

You can talk about tonnage and gun size all you want, they had nothing on the Iowas. On a clear day in calm seas the Yamato might have had something of a chance against an Iowa… but even then it still would have ended up as an artificial reef 9 times out of 10.

I had the privilege of diving on the sunken Yamagiri Maru at Truk (now Chuuk) Lagoon. She still has in her hold a number of 18" shells meant for Yamato and Musashi. I was able to go down and touch--and dare I say, even straddle!--one of those huge shells! It's an amazing feeling to see and touch these, the largest shells ever made in the history of naval warfare. Even overgrown a bit, they are greatly impressive!

On another note, I've always thought that those two ships had just about the cleanest, most beautiful design of any battleships ever made. They were glorious--but already obsolete for their designed purpose.

Is this the same narrator as the one from the RIP rounds?! xD

Always been intrigued by Naval gunnery, though my career was entirely in Submarines for 24 years. We were blessed by some of the most brilliant leaders during WWII, and in some instances, were blessed by those leaders not listening to idiots. Fortunately, our Submarine forces during that time were manned by the most fearless, determined, and crazy men who fraught victory at every turn and became the most feared element by the opposing forces. Big guns put on a show, but snatching victory by being the silent, denizens of the deep brought Japan to their knees. Finishing off the threat with two Nuclear Weapons, seems to bring forth the thought of cutting off the head of thine enemy. Have you seen pictures of modern day Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The places that would not be inhabitable for the next three generations? Turns out, they are completely inhabitable and thriving.

Thank GOD Germans and Japs made many errors during the War.

Is this an add for speach therapy? OK for a ghost story not a docco.even though it is full of dodgy info.

A relative, Lt JG Jim Chaney, driving a SB2C off USS Intrepid made a dive bombing run on IJM Musashi at Leyte Gulf.

Certainly not the largest guns ever made, the British had 18" guns in WW1 and the Germans had 31" guns in WW2.

Dang I love your videos!

The imperial Japanese Navy made a poor judgement and miscalculation for WW2. The attack on Pearl Harbour changed the US Navy battle philosophy and tactics. Admiral Nimitz saw the decimation of most of the US Battleships and shifted the battle into Aircraft carriers battle groups instead. This decisive action which is still in place till today made the US Navy the most fearsome Navy in the world that could respond rapidly to any threat in the world, taking the battle into the enemy's doorstep quite literally. Admiral Yamamoto wrote in diary that Japan has woken a sleeping giant after the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Nah.... The largest gun ever used in combat was "Heavy Gustav", a German railway gun with an 80cm bore. It fired a 7 tonne shell at 2700 ft/sec.