Be Japanese

>Be Japanese
>Want to rule the waves like Brits do
>Construct largest, most powerful ship ever conceived
>Big guns and thick steel
>Symbol of national pride, literally the embodiment of Japanese imperial spirit
>Do nothing except haul cargo during 4 years of massive naval combat
>Sunk with all hands just 8 years after launch
>Japanese waters now ruled by US Navy 7th fleet
>British flagship survives 6 years of war unscathed
>HMS Victory now over 300 years old
>Made of wood
Is it really any wonder why the Japs got some national identity issues?

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the brits lost the prince of wales as well though

whats some canadian warship

>The morning after the battle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill received a phone call at his bedside from Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord.
>Pound: Prime Minister, I have to report to you that the Prince of Wales and the Repulse have both been sunk by the Japanese – we think by aircraft. Tom >Phillips is drowned.
>Churchill: Are you sure it's true?
>Pound: There is no doubt at all.
>Churchill hangs up
>In all the war, I never received a more direct shock... As I turned over and twisted in bed the full horror of the news sank in upon me. There were no British or American ships in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor, who were hastening back to California. Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme, and we everywhere were weak and naked.[54]

honhonhonhon

How did that work out

FUCK YOU
(is what we did)
(with a little help from the seppos)

>totally ignoring HMAS
wew Churchill so based

>make big, strong battleship

>sunk by afew american warplanes

shut up 昭南島

making one (three really) massive one was a mistake to begin with

preferably you make many smaller ones for the same price...

They should had made all 4 of them in carrier variant

Yamato hotel is qtiest. I think thats because it was too late to build a ship like that. They should have went full carriers instead. Kawaisou Hirohito ;(

>sunk by hundreds of american planes carrying bombs, torpedoes and rockets

Ftfy

They had a decisive battle doctorine in which they were supposed to sink the US fleet in one strike and end the war before they could recover (or sign peace), the admirals knew that they could never beat the US in a bunch of smaller battles, but it was important for the Yamato not to be sunk before that decisive battle. That's where bad decisions started and every battle that was decisive was ruled out as not by the Japs and the Yamato was not brought in, in fear of being sunk. It would be truly terrfying if that thing bombarded the shores of American soldiers landing on an island

The original plan was to make the US surrender after Pearl Harbor, but the nips fucked up by attacking when there were no carriers.

the yamato was sunk by a plane nicknamed the flying turkey

"The Avenger was the type of torpedo bomber used during the sinking of the two Japanese "super battleships": the Musashi and the Yamato."

"Escort carrier sailors referred to the TBF as the "turkey" because of its size and maneuverability in comparison to the F4F Wildcat fighters in CVE airgroups"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_TBF_Avenger


shut up wannabe tang china

Fuck the British Navy

you are just asking to be bergamod here

>it was sunk by a torpedo bomber with a silly name
And the Bismarck was disabled by a bi-plane, having a silly name does not make torpedoes any less powerful.

>be battleship
>sunk by meme-planes, flying turkies and other cheap shit
>still called the king of the seas

Battleships are cool and all but even the nips knew carriers ruled the seas in WWII

not untill it was too late

Actually, Yamato and USS North Carolina were constructed in almost the same period (1937-1941) where the power of naval aviation was still uncertain, which was ironically proven by Japan at Pearl harbor and Malaya a bit later. So, other naval powers were also constructing battleships as the cornerstone of fleet when Japan was constructing Yamato class. Americans even constructed next Iowa class ships.