Uss Iowa and the IJN Yamato

[@Raven53492]

It's interesting to note that the missouri was about 25 feet longer than the yamato but about 20 feet narrower . The total difference in displacement was an extra 14,000 tons for the yamato . 58,000 verses 72,000 tons .wow

[@USSArizonaBB39]

@@Raven53492 wow that is very impressive

[@ronjones9447]

The US battleships had to be 108 ft wide due to the Panama Canal being 110 ft wide at the time. The Japanese did not have that restriction. Google the image, US battleship going thru the Panama Canal. Very tight squeeze

[@nekota5967]

Japanese engineers had a very hard time finding a way to make the Yamato that small with that performance.
As a result, they completed a ship that was unusually small for its water capacity.

[@Raven53492]

@nekota5967 check out the yamato museum nekota youtubes. 1: 10 scale model of the battleship.
Ide like to know how much the model weighs

[@claiborneeastjr4129]

You're correct. the 108' beam of the Iowa was to facilitate passage thru the Panama Canal, whose locks are 110' wide - which meant a VERY tight squeeze! Also the Iowa was noticeably faster than the Yamato. And, the Iowa's 16" guns were a bit smaller than the Yamato's 18" guns. Today (2024) all four Iowas survive, and both the Yamato and Musashi (and re-purposed Shinano) are at the bottom of the sea. These are beautiful models, and exquisitely detailed.

[@Raven53492]

Thankyou for the video

[@shouldhavedonebetter]

The ship was named IJN Yamato (named after the Yamato province of Japan). The WWII Japanese Admiral was named Isoroku Yamamoto. What Yammamoto is I have no idea. While we're at it - It's USS Arizona (United States Ship Arizona) - not Uss.

[@jonathandomingo33]

IJN stands for Imperial Japanese Navy ship...just saying...

[@davidjacobs8558]

山本 Yama Moto
Yama means Mountain.
Moto means Root or Source
日本 Nihon (Japan) . 本 can be read as "Hon" or "Moto". where Hon is Chinese (kinda) way to read it.

[@DB-rf9sy]

山本は名字です。
五十六は名前です。

[@SithEmpireV08]

I love this video. 2 of my favorite battleships next to each other

[@jurgenkatker7188]

Ich Glaube das die Modelle nicht den Gleichen Maßstab haben . Alleine der Unterschied der Hauptatellerie 40cm Iowa und 46cm Yamato ist seltsam .

[@lt.x-02s-wyvern25]

Its Yamato

[@ralfe2212]

They should have put together ships of the same scale.

[@bobwhitebread1887]

They should make a Bismark too to compare with those two.

[@ussenterprisecvn-8098]

So the Iowa class battleships we’re longer than the Yamato class.

[@madkoala2130]

Those two ships were so close to meet face to face at battle of Philippine sea. Imagine if that idiot Halsey actually left one Iowa class battleship to support Taffy 3 and left Center force even more damage (maybe even sinking Yamato).

[@USSArizonaBB39]

@@madkoala2130 exactly

[@user-kn4fw4ol2m]

You mean the battle of Leyte Gulf. Not Philippine Sea!!

[@bjorn1583]

the yamato class out gunned and out armored the iowa class in every way and thats why the US used only aircraft to take both of them down.
it was deemed far too costly to allow any surface ships near the yamatos

[@madkoala2130]

@bjorn1583 Yamato couldn't hit anything before Iowas range. Surago Strait showed how inferior Japanes fire control is. By the time Yamato would start to hit something Iowa would most likely dealt some major damage, and most likely they would start retreat before even hitting Taffy 3 since they didn't expect battleship there.

[@manilajohn0182]

One Iowa class BB would have been in real trouble. In every area of comparison except maximum speed- broadside weight, bursting charge size, armor protection, immunity zone, and yes, gunnery accuracy- the Yamato's were clear superiors to the Iowa class BBs. The marginal superiority in range and bearing accuracy of the U.S. Navy Mark 8 Radar Range Keeper over Japanese optics and their Type 22 Radar was more than offset by the significant shell dispersion of the Iowa class (1.9% of range for a nine- gun salvo vs. 1.3% for the Yamato class). The Iowa class BBs were in fact treaty battleships with the 10,000- ton escalator clause worked into the design, and were intended to escort fleet carriers and overtake and destroy the Japanese Kongo class fast battleships.
In fact, none of the Iowa's ever registered a main battery hit on any vessel of destroyer size or larger during WW2. The Japanese destroyer Nowaki reported no damage during Operation Hailstone while Iowa's after- action report recorded no main battery hits (all eight salvoes were straddles) on the training cruiser Katori. On the other hand, Yamato obtained three 1st salvo hits on USS Johnston from over 20,000 yards and one 1st salvo hit on USS Gambier Bay (aimed solely by the ship's Type 22 radar due to a lack of a visual on the target until about a minute after opening fire) from just under 22,000 yards. She also dropped two shells right alongside USS White Plains from just over 34,000 yards. While neither of these likely hit the escort carrier, one of them exploded- and the damage took White Plains out of front- line service for the remainder of the war.

[@Bestplayer-mx6yb]

Very nice.

[@nekota5967]

Yamato: "You Yamato hotel guy!" and my crew was beaten up in bars and other towns by other destroyer crews who were too bloodthirsty!
Iowa "I feel ・・・・ sorry for you, even though you were the first to go out as a decoy in an air suicide mission without air support at the end."
Yamato: If I were to be sad about that, I would be laughed at by the Zuikaku, Chitose, Chiyoda, Ryu Sheung Sheung ... aircraft carriers and other ships that were lost as decoys.

[@-ZM_Gaming-]

Its Yamato. IJN Yamato

[@USSArizonaBB39]

@@-ZM_Gaming- you think I don’t know that already

[@-ZM_Gaming-]

​@@USSArizonaBB39I was only correcting your spelling mistake bro chill

[@USSArizonaBB39]

@@-ZM_Gaming- I’ve i’ve heard it so many times and I’m getting tired of it sorry

[@francescolol]

IJN Yammamoto🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SithEmpireV08]

what is so funny? its a name in japanese and he was known as the commander of the Yamato

[@bkjeong4302]

Two of the most formidable but also most utterly pointless and wasteful warships ever built. Capital ships that were fundamentally incapable of being used as such due to entering service at the worst possible time.

[@sneckotheveggieavenger9380]

Iowa saw service until 90. I saw it was pretty successful

[@bkjeong4302]

@@sneckotheveggieavenger9380
She saw service as a giant and massively overpriced destroyer, never as an actually viable strategic asset which is what she was supposed to be.
And even then she spend over half that time in mothballs because of how wasteful and pointless she was.

[@stefanocesaretti6560]

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