Ping.
Bigger isn’t better. Think the Bismarck.
I also recall a documentary a few years back where Nazi Germany built one model of a super huge tank. I do not recall the specs, but it was a monster. The problem was not enough materials to go into production. IMO the real problem was being a huge waste of resources as it could have been easily knocked out. Where as if the same resources were used to build smaller tanks more would survive to do their intended tasks before being knocked out... If that makes sense.
Much more thoroughly researched.
Much better written.
Much cheaper.
(And I'm being much more sarcastic.)
It’s a good thing Billy Mitchell wasn’t Japanese. Just imagine if the Imperial Navy had said screw those old battleships — we’re pouring all our resources into carriers.
Bkmk
Dreams versus reality and practicality! There are many that think it was a mistake for Germany to build its ‘Pocket Battleships’ like the Bismark and her sisters. If the same resources had been put into the U-Boat fleet, Britain might have been starved into submission.
Ditto, and even worse, with the IJN supers, the Yamato-class Battleships. Japan’s chronic metal shortage became a cause of war when FDR embargoed scrap-metal and other resource purchases in the late 1930s. If, instead, the IJN had gone to added carriers and smaller ‘gun’ ships AND an aggressive sub force of their own, they would have gotten a better force. We, of the Allied Nations, should be happy that autocrats can see such ‘shiny objects’ as these being so attractive!
Of course, our own USN was very divided over Battleship vs Carrier in the pre-war era. The fact that Pearl Harbor left the Carriers to be the strong arm in the vast Pacific for those early years, made the transition to the predominant air-power an easier move than if that rivalry stayed hot!
Thanks for posting this!
How much does 1945 pay you to continually pimp their site?
Well, the Yamato worked out well so the Super Yamato should make a bigger “splash.”
I served on that submarine in the early 60's.
Same fate would have waited waited as for the Yamato and Musashi.
Sunk by aircraft and submarines.