Destroyers: it's not the size, but how you use it Yamato: ain't that the truth

@aa-ron6718

2 ай бұрын

That's so funny since the Yamato had some performance issues 😂 (I don't think it fired in anger before sunk but I may be wrong🤷‍♂️)

@mr.jancok4413

2 ай бұрын

Yamato did fire on anger when 4 American destroyer charge her battle line in order to protect 6 escort carriers behind them, one 18 inch shell manage to hit a fletcher class named Johnson and it destroyed both 2 front turrets and almost blown off the bridge and she sink shortly after, the only other time that she fired on anger is when she fire termite shells at incoming planes during her last voyage and hit nothing. That is the only time Yamato ever fired her main gun that I remember

@NomoSapienss

2 ай бұрын

@@mr.jancok4413 thanks for the naval history part, it's appreciated. 👍

@jonathanpaul4434

2 ай бұрын

,😂

@Scylla_real

2 ай бұрын

Hello shitty submarine

"Measured in inches, or sometimes millimeters"... Me too friend... Me too...

@davidtwliew616

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂That's an understatement!!! 😅😅😅

@klarkmartinez1124

2 ай бұрын

😂😂

@camillet4005

2 ай бұрын

As inch is defined by law as 25.4mm , it is always measured in mm!

@nikolaideianov5092

2 ай бұрын

​@@camillet4005then there the "4" measurment for the M1 abrams ammo rack Noone knows what that "4" is for

@justlucky8254

2 ай бұрын

​Why not use .03937"? ​@@camillet4005

I'm gonna start referring to it as "The Destroyer"

@raniduabeysinghe1425

Ай бұрын

Brooo nooo😂😂😂😂😂

@eisenbahnerharthausen

26 күн бұрын

Everything fun and games until 50 inch gustav railway cannon shows up

@eduardkalmanawardze

22 күн бұрын

Zerstörer 1934

@aniketsrivastava1870

6 күн бұрын

Heavy Cruishere😅

@gambigambigambi

5 күн бұрын

gamertag: CheeksDestroyer1945

The naval rifles were measured in diameter and caliber. Caliber being how many shell diameters the barrel was. The Iowa class had 16/50 main guns. The Fletcher DD had 5"/38 guns. The barrel made a big difference.

@Ilimar1

2 ай бұрын

So what does a 16/50 measure out to? Is it 16 inches x 50? 800 inches? So this is the length of the gun’s barrel?

@RGF19651

2 ай бұрын

@@Ilimar1Yes, the second number after the / is the number of shell diameters or gun bore that the gun barrel is long. Your example is correct.

@jpowens2253

2 ай бұрын

​@@Ilimar1just to clarify what the others said, it's (diameter of shell)/(length of barrel) So 16/50 means (16 inch diameter shell)/(16×50=800 inch barrel)

@535phobos

2 ай бұрын

"Caliber" is the inner diameter of the gun, not the length. The length is then given in x calibers, as in "x times the inner diameter of the gun", but caliber is per definition not about the length

@mikehenthorn1778

2 ай бұрын

@@535phobos in navel guns it is barrel and length of same. So 5inch 38 is a 5 inch diameter and 38 caliber long barrel.

"She said 12 Inch isn't enough so we made it 18" -Married Japanese Engineer

@Lieutenant_panzer131

2 ай бұрын

Oh hell naw 💀

@GreatestManOfWorld

2 ай бұрын

Kinda dark

@Spy_main38

2 ай бұрын

Bro's bouta be in heaven

@GenikaXVI

2 ай бұрын

18 inch dayum son

@hakeemdj368

2 ай бұрын

😅

The original shaft measuring contest.

@robertmcriley9568

2 ай бұрын

Would this not be girth?

@jaiell2049

2 ай бұрын

And the bigger ones hurt

@ronmaximilian6953

2 ай бұрын

No. Spears or pikes were

@s4ss

2 ай бұрын

Nips really going all out

@damelyngdoh2370

2 ай бұрын

​@@jaiell2049that is true technically.

Frigates now use 2 inch guns since they are rapid-firing and they rely more on missiles. Destroyers now use 4-5 inch guns like the 127mm NATO guns but they also rely more on missiles.

Every video you make is like a mini-movie.

Idk, that destroyer seems pretty big and he probably has a good personality too

@chucknutly3290

2 ай бұрын

Yeah personally I prefer it when it's read in millimetres. Besides everyone knows it's all about the amount of seamen and the quality of the seamen too. A big gun is useless without the right seamen. Personally when I'm firing my hot load into the enemy I choose something more discreet and understated, it's easier to pack and carry around that way, it's less likely to get snagged on something or overheat or even freeze. You want something reliable not some big cannon or Gatling gun. Personally I'd go for a nice mp5, that's what the sas use in a tight spot. It's a handful but it won't leave you sore the next day, the mp5.

@entertext783

2 ай бұрын

Damn💀💀💀💀

@lunkystraydog6572

2 ай бұрын

Lol

@cola-warthunder9888

2 ай бұрын

😂​@@chucknutly3290

@dumbest_person_in_the_world

2 ай бұрын

@@chucknutly3290💀

Jesus... the Yamato is the closest thing to a motherfucking Gundam you could design in WW2 times. No wonder anime became a thing later.

@twurtle12hd39

2 ай бұрын

Eh it and the bismark both got whacked pretty quick. It’s the reason u don’t see battleships nowadays. Too much money for something too easily destroyed

@furrballwasnottaken

2 ай бұрын

@@twurtle12hd39 it's a snail compared to a battle cruiser 💀

@billdoherty5332

2 ай бұрын

My wife can disy

@cybertronian2005

2 ай бұрын

y u gotta bring anime into it just cos it's Japanese

@dianapennepacker6854

2 ай бұрын

​@@twurtle12hd39Super Carriers might be suffering the same fate. Not a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket when an enemy can launch missiles that outreach your ship. Even if it took 1,000 missiles to sink one super carrier it would be worth it. 5,000 plus men, like expensive pilots, or worse nuclear engineers/mechanics just gone. Then all those expensive planes, and expensive armaments. Need to get some megawat lasers in the fleet.

”… so what ship are you??”

Next video: Why are naval gun sizes given in millimeters? "Measured in millimeters, or sometimes inches..."

@dariusweisz7440

26 күн бұрын

thats a short for idiots... everyone should know the things he is saying

They don’t call me the Destroyer for nothing

@conorcogan9865

2 ай бұрын

so it has a 4 inch diameter thats very large

@cideltacommand7169

2 ай бұрын

​@@conorcogan9865not big enough

@reynaldoflores4522

2 ай бұрын

Destroyers are mainly for hunting down and sinking submarines. Not for naval bombardment.

@cideltacommand7169

2 ай бұрын

@@reynaldoflores4522 they are meant to serve as cannon fodders too

@quangnhatpham677

2 ай бұрын

​@@conorcogan9865their guns may be small but their torpedoes are bigger than a battleship's main gun lmao

I'm sure the destroyers have great personalities.

@Menuki

2 ай бұрын

Considering how many survived the war and Yamato didn’t, there’s a lot to be said about staying power

@ThatSpecificIndividual

2 ай бұрын

Destroyer guns were meant for lightly armoured boats or other destroyers, anything bigger they used torpedoes.

@trivial50

2 ай бұрын

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA PENIS

@derekholdeman4461

2 ай бұрын

I'm a light cruiser😂

@CrnaStrela

2 ай бұрын

​@@MenukiYamato was obsolete weapons in the era of aviations, both Yamato and Musashi got struck down by bunch of bomber planes with no way to fought back, they were just big ass targets. Destroyers were also constructed a lot, USN would probably gotten thousand of destroyers had they didn't stop the production. So yeah, it's 2 vs thousands, of course there are more destroyers that survived the war

Damm bro even naval battleship are packing them big ahh guns ✋😭💀

These ships got more inches than most of us💀

“ 5 inch shells can fit in one hand “ nah it’s 2 of you hold it by the base 😬

@user-qt3vt4sr2z

2 ай бұрын

5” round weights approximately 65 lbs and powder casing around 28 lbs. I was right gun captain on a 5”38 twin mount on a Gearing class destroyer.

@scottdobson1276

2 ай бұрын

Weren't WW2 5 in shells a cartridge, rather than separate projectile and propellant?

@Suckemup

2 ай бұрын

You must have tiny hands if they’re only 2.5 inch palms

@mattjohnson9727

2 ай бұрын

These guys missed the point lol

@-EVIL-FRIDAY-THE-13-TH

2 ай бұрын

5'8 inch very relatable 💀

Where my fellow light cruisers at?

@cynwraeth1943

2 ай бұрын

I'm a Japanese destroyer :(😢

@USA1776..

2 ай бұрын

I'm with you for light cruiser.

@gruntmadness886

2 ай бұрын

I'm on my way to heavy cruiser

@koolkatkeldon

2 ай бұрын

It's not the size of the main battery, it's how you use it Cruiser Kings

@dr.brigh0275

2 ай бұрын

Sorry mate, I am a heavy cruiser, but I am here to get rid of your enemy light cruiser ;)

Your storytelling abilities are unmatched.

Something interesting about the 16in ammo the US battleships, but mainly pertaining to the Iowa's because they had longer caliber guns, is that even though the yamato class had 18in guns, the American 16in Super Heavy AP shell weighed more and could penetrate more armor than the yamato's guns. The japanese never developed a heavier AP shell for the yamato class, from my knowledge.

@calvinnickel9995

Ай бұрын

@Dragonwolf920 Kind of meaningless because even in post war tests at point blank range US navy 16 inch guns were unable to penetrate Yamato class armour. In fact no post-dreadnought battleship ever sunk another with gunfire alone. Bismarck was scuttled and the Japanese “battleships” that were sunk by gunfire were actually battlecruisers. All others sank in part or entirely due to aerial bombs and torpedoes.

@OmegaTou

Ай бұрын

​@@calvinnickel9995 you can easily google a picture of the 26in turret faceplate having been penetrated by a 16 inch US navel gun, so your statement is incorrect. Additionally, different parts of the ship had different amounts of armor. There were parts of the Yamato's superstructure that could be penetrated by 5 inch shells from a destroyer. Heck, you could wreck the radar array with a pistol if you got close enough.

@kylezdancewicz7346

18 күн бұрын

Iowa>Yamato Need proof, I can go visit an Iowa without needing scuba gear

Everyone gangsta till some idiot designs an 18 _foot_ gun

@shadowconquer-yv5yd

2 ай бұрын

Closest you'd have is the Gustave gun at 31.5 inches.

@isaac6077

2 ай бұрын

It can only be fired twice before needing barrel replacement

@dedelblute3946

2 ай бұрын

@@isaac6077 I did mention it would have to be designed by an idiot...

@theboshow9697

2 ай бұрын

@@isaac6077I thought it was 13-14 times before the barrel had to be replaced

@laszlokocsi1825

2 ай бұрын

And the materials used was subpar I think

When she leaves you for a ship with a bigger gun:

@cideltacommand7169

2 ай бұрын

Long Lance:

I think we all thought the same way when seeing those ship inch comparisons

Analyst: We need to spend our war resources carefully. Japanese Navy: We require the largest shells in naval history.

Just remember boys even a destroyer is enough

The reason that warships had standardized gun sizes by the Second World War was because of treaty limits. In an attempt to prevent a naval arms race like the one that contributed to the Great War, the largest naval powers on Earth met to limit naval build up via treaty. The Washington Naval Treaty was followed by the London Naval Treaties. The naval treaties limited the size, power, and number of ships a country could build of each type. Destroyers couldn't have guns bigger than 5 inches. Cruisers 8 inches. Any ship with bigger guns were considered capital ships (battleships and battlecruisers). While the Washington Naval Treaty didn't differentiate between light and heavy cruisers, politics saw them defined in the 1930 London Naval Treaty. Ultimately, the treaties are often called a failure because they didn't stop Germany, Japan, or Italy from violating this system and preventing World War II. However, oft overlooked is their success in preventing a potential UK/US conflict in the 1930's. The US and UK had conflicting needs for cruiser forces. The UK needed enough ships to patrol their far flung Empire and the US needed enough ships to protect both the east and west coast. With the Royal Navy could probably get approval to build the ship's they wanted from Parliament, the US Navy was constantly fighting with a Congress that seemed allergic to spending money on the military unless actively at war. All this created a situation where the British needed more ships than the US could reasonably build. The US and UK wanted to balance power so neither had a clear advantage in the hopes it would prevent conflict, but the cruiser dispute was so critical to both countries needs that it almost caused the collapse of the treaty system in 1930. Behind closed doors, neither US nor UK politicians wanted a war or arms race, but the US public was still wary of the British Empire and wanted to feel like we equaled them while the British needed to keep the supply lines of the British Empire intact. The cruiser "ruler" was a slightly convoluted method to try and meet both countries needs. It basically said that a heavy cruiser was worth a certain number of light cruisers (I forget the exact ratio. I have it in a book somewhere in my basement). This was militarily questionable, but it allowed American politicians to claim that the US had parity with Britain while the UK politicians could claim they maintained the status of the Royal Navy as the most powerful on Earth. The politicians were happy for budgetary and diplomatic reasons. Both navies were happy because the compromise created a scenario where both nations could meet their own needs while enforcing their will on the other countries of the treaty system. It also helped maintain an amicable relationship between the UK and US which allowed Roosevelt to support the UK through the Lend Lease act once the war began.

@michaelotoole1807

2 ай бұрын

nice explanation. it didn't help that japan felt insulted that they weren't equal parties to the number of ships it could build. I believe it was the 5- 5 -3 rule. for every 5 ships the English or Americans built the Japanese could only build 3.

@user-bu2ro8vg8b

2 ай бұрын

It did not stop some nations from playing fast and lose with the designs giving some ships which did not realistically fit the treaties such as the German pocket battleships and the British going for a dry tonnage not including the fuel etc .

@piercecowley255

2 ай бұрын

​@user-bu2ro8vg8b and to bypass the heavy cruisers are more than a light cruiser they got a gun that was just below the 6 inch limit then crammed as many as they could on the ship resulting in light cruisers more heavily armed than heavy cruisers

@lerbronk

2 ай бұрын

the only thing that came out of those forsaken treaties are outrageous japanese.

@benjy117

2 ай бұрын

Good copy and paste kid.

I want a game that looks like this animation you put together.

@doom-1472

2 ай бұрын

Rule the waves is the closest one i can think of

Sturmtiger is chilling at the corner

Of course, with a crew of men, they'll always ROUND UP the "size" of their guns

its not about the size of the gun, its the motion in the ocean.

@HoneyBadger762

2 ай бұрын

Yeah cause the USA made the Yamato dry hump the ocean floor😂😂😂😂

@sneeki8082

2 ай бұрын

​@@HoneyBadger762its like comparing a guy to a heavy duty horse penis size vibrator.

@Scarletraven87

2 ай бұрын

good reference

@g7majoh125

2 ай бұрын

best comment so far at least and I read quite a few. It’s nice that it simultaneously makes sense and rhymes

@arthurbrumagem3844

2 ай бұрын

A girlfriend told me that just before she broke up with me because I failed on both points 😂😂

I'm really a light cruiser, but my tinder profile says I'm a heavy cruiser.

That's why Japan always give you 100% guaranteed even in war 😂

Yamato's secondary never fails to make me laugh. I still cannot believe that was a real thing.😂

@panavgaming1050

2 ай бұрын

So true

@cdmonmcginn7561

2 ай бұрын

there were two built, the other was Musashi

Yeah. The Yamato had 18 inch guns, but it's at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

@davidtwliew616

2 ай бұрын

Rusted away.😂😂😂

@camillet4005

2 ай бұрын

Yep, caused by aircraft. Thus big battle ships have become obsolete.

@Issar137

2 ай бұрын

And so is the 'mighty' Hood .

@centurymemes1208

2 ай бұрын

anyone iowa engaged in that would be blown to smithereens. carrier warfare is the king. missiles may have altered a bit, but air power is necessary

@HoneyBadger762

2 ай бұрын

The USA made the Yamato dry hump the ocean floor😂😂😂😂

Ngl putting the IJN Yamato in here is cool-

All countries other than the U.S. use millimeters rather than inches to measure the caliber of a gun. 😂

@charleswidmore5458

2 ай бұрын

exactly. there are two kinds of countries on earth. those who use the metric system and those whose men have walked, driven and played golf on the moon, starting over 50 years ago.

@10001vader

2 ай бұрын

@@charleswidmore5458 You do know that we used metric to get to the moon, right?

@charleswidmore5458

2 ай бұрын

@@10001vaderactually we used real measurements back then

@hajop3324

2 ай бұрын

​@@charleswidmore5458wait Liberia and Myanmar did those thinks? Seems like it's nothing special then 😊

@Vindictator1972

2 ай бұрын

the wild part is they use Metric for street drugs sometimes and definitely use it for actual guns. Just look at the 9mm they always say AND the 40 Mike Mike.

Guess I’m a heavy cruiser

@ResultofFailedbirthcontrol

2 ай бұрын

Lol

@jimmylavc561

2 ай бұрын

Destroyer class here 😞

@piercecowley255

2 ай бұрын

Wdym

@ETGtheone

2 ай бұрын

​@@jimmylavc561Patrol boat here

@jimmylavc561

2 ай бұрын

@@ETGtheone Stay strong brother

This is not just ship canons, its everything from riffles to autocanons to artillery canons that are counted in mm

@LecherousLizard

2 ай бұрын

And only in countries that don't use the metric system.

@lemons1559

2 ай бұрын

Such as the 120mm cannon on the Abrams or the 25mm autocannon on the Bradley. Some might even say your 155mm artillery and 5.56mm rifle cartridges are all good examples of guns in inches.

@LecherousLizard

2 ай бұрын

@@lemons1559 Don't forget the classic 9mm.

@WayStedYou

Ай бұрын

Well no then we use thousandths and mm

Naval ops warship gunner was what bring me into warship

although Incomparable was never built, she was going to be fitted with astonishing 20 inch guns

The bot comments are crazy

@furrballwasnottaken

2 ай бұрын

Ong lmao 😂

@historigraph

2 ай бұрын

yeah its getting exhausting, moderating comments is like the worlds worst game of whack a mole

@furrballwasnottaken

2 ай бұрын

@@historigraph I feel you 🙂

@smeghead765

2 ай бұрын

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@ajoshdoingthings541

2 ай бұрын

​@@smeghead765had me chuckling, not gonna lie😂

British Captain: load the 16" guns. British sailor: sir we use the metric system.

@boyakyat8314

2 ай бұрын

American tanks bore measured in mm

@t.r.4496

2 ай бұрын

@@boyakyat8314 Sherman commander: load the 76mm gun. Loader: Sir we use the imperial system.

@justit1074

2 күн бұрын

british were still using imperial during ww2

One good scene in "under siege" "we still got shells for those"

I could watch this on loop forever.

There is also the BATTLE CRUISER class which had battleship armament but built for speed and were often larger than battleships because they had bigger engines. Their weakness was in being treated as fast battleships rather than super powerful cruisers. This mad them vulnerable against a battleship which was essentially a floating tank.

@yia01

2 ай бұрын

battle cruiser have battleship gun but cruiser armor, big gun, no armor so it light and fast but go down in 1 hit against true capital ship. bismarck demostrate that against hood.

@justit1074

2 күн бұрын

@@yia01 honestly, the hood being sunk by magazine detonation was more so a lucky shot, generally, warships were expected exchange several salvos, the first ones usually never hit as they were used for ranging, and pound each other down with many shells. A lucky detonation was more so a lucky break

Thank you for sharing I was a naval weapons technician in the Canadian Navy and the first gun that I worked on was a 3 inches 50…

This made me smile.

You’d think the destroyer would be the 18”er!!

Fun fact of the day. American Iowa class bb's had almost as much penetration on their 16" guns as the Yamato class did on their 18" guns. Just goes to show how technologically superior the American Navy was compared to the Japanese Navy by the end of the war

@a2e5

2 ай бұрын

Plus the radar and fire control that allowed them to see, shoot, and adjust over visual range…

@drewski5730

2 ай бұрын

Funnier fact of the day: the Japanese rendered the 16in guns of the American battleships and their technologically superior fire control systems, completely obsolete on December 7, 1941.

@IAmTheRealBill

2 ай бұрын

@@drewski5730you don’t seem to understand facts and temporality. 😂 the fact is the US developing those things was a result of PH, not ended by it.

@drewski5730

2 ай бұрын

@@IAmTheRealBill I don’t think you understand…. Battleships were obsolete after pearl harbour. Other than stroking your own ego, your entire line of thinking is irrelevant. The entire class of ship ceased to be a capital ship after December 7, 1941, full stop. It didn’t matter if the American guns had better armour penetration, or better fire control as bombs and torpedoes rendered the main guns irrelevant for anything but shore bombardment, full stop. All exchanges between battleships after December 7, 1941 would have been a more favourable engagement if one of the combatants battleships were directly replaced with aircraft carriers. In fact, I would argue with such a substitution the battle would have been extremely lopsided in favour of the combatant with the carrier. Edit: you’re comparing how fast a pair of horses run around a formula 1 track as if it’s relevant to a formula 1 race. Technology had advanced far past armour penetration of 16” shells and fire control systems by 1941.

@ThatSpecificIndividual

2 ай бұрын

​@drewski5730 in the end, big guns didn't matter if you can send out aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes that can do more damage than 100 shells and strike at a much higher range.

YOOOO MY GIRL NELSON GOT MENTIONED, SHE'S MY FAVORITE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

@CT--ym5mn

2 ай бұрын

Royal Navy's best girl ong, luv me some three turret bow side 16 inch guns

@governorofalabama9274

2 ай бұрын

Damn straight

@fltcaptarmna6612

2 ай бұрын

@5mn Well Rodney is best girl, just ask Bismarck... Well at least when Warspite isn't involved...

@musketeer2727

2 ай бұрын

_Ark Royal's Swordfishes have entered the chat_

Great video! The "pocket battleships" were essentially over gunned heavy cruisers with 11inch guns that didn't fit either class.

Average guy thinking: mine is 3 inches..!

no, youre clearly wrong. The destroyers have 2 pins, cruisers have 3 pins, and battleships have 4 pins. I cannot believe this misinformation smh

@calvinnickel9995

Ай бұрын

@godzillaridergamer7595 Your information is out of date. Now destroyers have three pins, patrol boats have two pins, and there are no more cruisers.

So how big are you, "eh. I'm a destroyer"

Battleships are crazy. If you ever get the chance to tour one I highly recommend it. I recently toured the USS North Carolina. Being there in person is truly indescribable. Especially seeing below deck

And now those guns are almost virtually obsolete with a 10,000 dollar unmanned drone boat

He still didn't answer the actual question.

@noutsu-

Ай бұрын

There's not even a question wtf

Youre telling me the guns werent 16 inches long?

Fun fact. There’s only about 156 lbs of HE in a battleship shell. The casing is what makes it so destructive, and able to penetrate thick armor.

Just wanna but a small amount of uhh context. The HMS Hood was blown up by a 360mm shell and the Bismark has like 8 15 inch guns in twin turrets so yeahhhh

Imagine going for a walk and just randomly getting hit by a 1 ton hunk of fast moving metal

Hey man that destroyer is funny and has a great personality

I'm sure they all have great personalities, no matter the size.

Trust me That 4 inch shell had a good personality 🤍

Now I understand my Helldivers 2 Orbital stratagems better, thanks!

When you fire a broadside of those biggest guns it literally displaces the ship a few feet. This isn't a big deal when direct firing, but for indirect fire you eventually have to adjust follow-up shells to allow for this.

Totally unrelated to this subject but similarly, being in imperial resolution, the thread securing your typical hand held camera to a tripod is 1/4 inch British Standard Whitworth! I believe that, in most cases at least, the coolant fittings on European vehicles use British Standard Pipe threads, I think US vehicles use National Pipe threads.

Ah, the Yamato, 18" guns and promoted to submarine.

I’m sure the 4 inch has a lot of personality! 🥺

My dad used to talk about the 16 inch guns they used during WW2 when they were on the Russian convoys.

There's a Coral Reef with 18 inch guns, cool

Larger units are used to hide unit cost from the bean counters that hold the purse strings. Smaller numbers just look better on the accountant's ledger

Pretty much they made “throwing-a-stick” a lot cooler.

I can't imagine the stress applied on the hull next to the turrets when they fired. Those things must have had some really strong welds.

I'm a senior. Growing up my dad was a young tool and die machinist then engineer. In WW2 and the Korean war he was in charge of gun mount at Firestone. Every now and then he would bring home some project he was working on. Sometimes he would bring home the end of a shell casing. They were made of solid brass and were very heavy. I never saw the whole thing but they must have been very difficult to manage. He had a big shop in the basement and could make anything you could describe to him. Memories.

The Yamato is the poster boy for “you need to leave this sippy hub, you are sucking the supply out”

I thought those were pencil tips but huge for a second

"Don't worry, honey. I'm a battleship.... or a heavy cruiser, accounting for shrinkage."

Dang size really matters 💀

This made my day better.

I actually never knew that thank you so much.

Thank youfor sharing your incredible talent with us on TikTok!

Prior to the 20th century, however, naval guns (like land-based cannon) were sized by the *weight* of the cast iron ball that would fit the bore. So Napoleon's armies used 8, 10, and 12 pound guns, and late 18th century warships might have used 36 pounders (they didn't have to haul them up hills by horse power) -- though they'd often have smaller secondaries and even smaller "cannonades" or chasers.

Cross section is proportional to radius squared. The weigh is proportional to cross section times length. The bigger shell is also longer, so the difference between the 5 inch shell and 16 is huge in terms of weight. It is roughly proportional to the diameter cubed. 5x5x5 compared to 16x16x16 which is about 32 times. And the cost of the guns is even more disproportionate. 16 inch guns can only fire a few dozen times before needed to be reworked.

For battleships there were more sizes even than you listed, as I'm sure you're aware. For those interested, there were: -12" (many WW1 dreadnoughts, USS Arkansas in WW2) -12.6" or 320mm (modernized Italian battleships) -13" or 330mm (Dunkerque class) -13.4" or 340mm (Bretagne class) -13.5" (some British WW1 battleships and battlecruisers) -14" (American, Japanese battleships that served in both world wars, also used in a couple British and Chilean ships)

Im Sure The Four Inch Shells Had A Great Personality

the uss Montana battleship was going to be one of the biggest battle ships in the world and could compete with the yamato

Sad that battleships have been replaced by Destroyers

When you're destroyer but she said she needs a heavy cruiser 😅

I'm pretty sure the thickness of the ship's hull is also typically one for one proportionate to the size of the guns they carry

"Yam-A-Toe" bro has a dent in his head

Her: “perfect”

That nelson class looked like the hms rodney

I BET THE DESTROYER HAS A GOOD PERSONALITY

Yamato the legend that never got his chance 😭✨

Yamato takes the cake for having the biggest main guns

That’s why they call me battleship sometimes

Japan really went with the "size does matter"

The difference in naval guns is in the use of the word caliber. In other weapons caliber is the diameter of the barrel, a 44 barrel is 44/100 of an inch. In Naval guns it's shortened from calibers, with a 50 caliber gun meaning the length of the gun is 50 times its diameter. In general a longer barrel means a higher muzzle velocity. For example the Iowa's fired the same projectile as the North Carolinas, but had a 50 caliber 16 rather than a 45 caliber 16, adding around 200 fps to the speed it exits the barrel.

The Yamato basically fired car sized shells