Bismarck

triggering the international community instead of using flaws in the treaty is 4D chess. this is why they lost.

Absolutely. It was a classic blunder of thinking you could get away with a lot more shit than you could. Germany thought they could get a bit more ships built before it became a flash point. Britian said, no way kaiser!

The Kriegsmarine surface fleet never stood a chance. It was the right choice for Germany to abandon the idea of a large surface fleet because it would never have been able to score any meaningful victories against the already massive British and American navies. U-boats were the only option that could grant any success.
you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. First of all, the surface ships of the Kriegsmarine had fire control systems so advanced that the US military couldn't even figure out how to operate them, putting the Bismarck well ahead of being "just another battleship". Second of all, super battleships are a meme and never panned out. Look at the Yamato, it hardly ever left port because it used such an excessive amount fuel. When it finally had a mission it was shit on by carrier aircraft because it was so big and slow.

Typical German autism. Either you build the biggest baddest ship or nothing. They pour all of your energy and resources into one enormous project and then get btfo'd by neurotypicals. Even if they made a shit ton of Battlecruisers that were smaller but far more mobile than the average Battleship, they would have been like wolves surrounding its prey.

Well, in the Denmark Strait the Bismarck destroyed the bongs' flagship, the Hood, in about 2-3 minutes of combat, and then turned on the other bong warship, the Prince of Wales, and pummeled it into submission and would have destroyed it as well, but the krauts decided to break off the action. So it was a fairly competent and representative weapon of its time, even if the time for such warfare was passing away. Bismarck was destroyed because the autistic krauts were ever autistic and reported in to base and gave away their position, at a moment when the retarded bongs were reeling and clueless as to where it was. It was a battle of autism against mental retardation, and both lost.

you're forgetting the part where it was a literal swarm of swordfish, try shooting down 50 planes at once with one ship

>protip, they can't

Now imagine if they built a swarm of ships instead of building one huge autistic one.

the sinking of the Hood is an extreme example of how nasty naval combat is
>one (1) armor piercing shell hits the Hood just right and penetrates the ammo storage
>ammo detonates, massive explosion, almost everyone on the ship fucking dies instantly

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