It looks like the Yamato took the best of the American shell elevator from the iowas changed the way the shells got reoriented (iowas just flopped them down with the spinning tray) and then took the Brittish flash car method for powder
@riuUCАй бұрын
System was very complicated.
@VIDEOVISTAVIEW20202 ай бұрын
Any english version?
@orenzemekan3 ай бұрын
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@metaknight1153 ай бұрын
Question. Which heavy cruiser partook in the sinking of USS Hoel alongside Kongo and Yamato's secondary battery? My guess would be Haguro, since Hoel sighted her at 6,000 yards and claimed to hit her with torpedoes (though none actually hit).
@dwayneroberts66164 ай бұрын
For all the Yamamoto vs Iowa comments out here. The shells they fired were 460 vs 406. Yes Yamamoto had bigger shells but 406 is more than enough to destroy the armor of Yamamoto. The Iowa was far more maneuverable and faster than Yamamoto it could fire on the move with decent accuracy because of the sighting system. The Iowa would have presented a hard target to hit compared to the slow maneuvering and slow moving Yamamoto. Iowa was built tough enough to take a hit from Yamamoto and keep fighting. If Iowa was hit and lost it's speed and maneuverability it wouldn't last long getting pounded by 460 mm guns.
@yamato_tenichigo4 ай бұрын
The Iowa was indeed about 5-7 knots faster than Yamato. Its 16" shells would have been more than sufficient in this hypothetical match-up. Two key advantages of Iowa were its superior radar targeting and faster reload times for its main guns. That said, Yamato had the most advanced optical firing system ever put on a ship and the most advanced IJN radars (She hit just about everything she fired at during the short engagement vs Taffy 3 off Samar Island - including planting an 18" shell that detonated under the keel of USS White Plains escort carrier, knocking her out of action - at 19.6 miles distance, the longest "hit" or "damaging near miss" in naval history. She also sank the USS Johnston, the USS Hoel and escort carrier Gambier Bay with her main and secondary batteries-note - all of these 3 ships were hit by fire from multiple IJN ships, but as Robert Lundgren demonstrates in his book "The World Won'dered-What really Happened Off Samar", it was Yamato that delivered the "kill shots" to each one of these USN vessels.). Anyhow ... it really comes down to which ship could hit the other one first. Yamato's 18.1" shells were likewise more than sufficient to inflict heavy damage on the Iowa class. And Yamato - at least in daylight - had the advantage of the longer 26-mile range of its 18.1" guns.
@metaknight11523 күн бұрын
@@yamato_tenichigo I have a question about the battle off Samar, which destroyers engaged USS Johnston. It is commonly stated six destroyers led by Yahagi engaged her in her final moments, but I've only been able to find Japanese records supporting four destroyers, Yukikaze, Isokaze, Urakaze, and Nowaki? Did only four destroyers engage the tin can, or did two or so Yugumos also take part in the 5-7v1?
@yamato_tenichigo23 күн бұрын
@@metaknight115 - I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but the best account shot-by-shot of the Battle off Samar Island, which will have your answer, is Robert Lundgren's book which you can find here: www.amazon.com/World-Wonderd-Really-Happened-Samar/dp/160888046X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Q8FQPGVBF21R&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GHQkNyTTFk0qlEaIP8EBgPqJ2NUUZpSo2fxL98z1J7r79BiSkb7a-e9Syj5oTr-zMt9S4V2irkQSi_rd60rJSLMZzVY8hAdyE-cAIIZJxINaWuQD68c2qrTBB5yTIBSqw2-tKQtljxspCm7FQWVG3fTkfgVZBl3urKKUUzry1NzIbJ6Ckn1b8Ks0p1CZdHXCPmPkMGi9KfiSeaaFZ9FHLdgVCOD2SJS6kzXBdrhwmwE.GFkSdPof16lgie8Ub370ZrIx1hFnyvWsoey2doJ9KLY&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+world+wonders+samar&qid=1716682787&sprefix=the+world+wonderd+samar%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-1
@dwayneroberts66164 ай бұрын
I challenge anyone to go back and look at the technology in the ships of ww2 and tell me we the human race couldn't be building advanced aircraft and technology behind closed doors that the average person would think was alien. They already had radar, sonar guidance systems for their torpedoes and sightings systems so advanced in their big guns they could put a shell the size of a Volkswagen in a pickle barrel 20 miles away. WW2 as tragic as it was advanced the human race decades ahead.
@701e94 ай бұрын
It wasn’t poor Admiralty on Kurita’s part. He was suffering a bit more than from sleep deprivation. He had been subjected to two full days of non stop air attacks from American Carrier planes. His 2 day ordeal started when he was forced to swim for his life when his flagship the cruiser Atago was struck by 4 Submarine torpedoes and sunk. His day got substantially worse as more and more American Carrier planes showed up sinking among other things Yamato’s sister Musashi. He finally managed to get aboard Yamato and pulled his fleet back to escape the carrier planes. That night he turned around and began his run through San Bernadino Strait. And what was the first thing that greeted him? Carrier Airplanes as far as the eye could see. Kurita had been promised air cover from land based Navy planes. What he didn’t learn until far too late was that virtually every Japanese Naval aircraft capable of flight had been destroyed over Formosa 2 weeks prior, when the Americans staged a massive Carrier raid. The Japanese Navy kept feeding planes into the battle because Admiral Toyoda, the head of the Japanese Navy had been visiting Formosa and was trapped there. The Japanese Navy’s air arm was all but wiped out. 500+ planes lost. Which was more than they had lost at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. So they had lied to Kurita. They promised him air cover. And here he was for the second day facing attacks from a vector that he had no defenses for. Kurita wasn’t worried so much about the Johnston and the brave Taffy 3 Escorts. What worried him were the Carrier Planes, whos numbers kept growing as Taffy’s 1 and 2 joined the fight. He didn’t know that they weren’t armed for Anti Ship. He just knew that as the battle progressed he was suddenly facing 200-300 Carrier planes. Kurita had not planned on dying that day or sacrificing all of his men. Even if the high command expected it. He had carefully rationed his fuel to allow for a return trip. And now he was facing what to him looked like an unwinnable fight. He could not enter Leyte Gulf itself because in its restricted waters his heavy surface ships could not maneuver to dodge torpedoes. Further he knew that sinking what he found there was pointless. From his interviews with the US Strategic Bombing assessment Panel in 1946, he knew that MacArthur's forces had landed already landed on Leyte, the day before his fleet set sail from Malaysia. He was fully aware that the only ships left in Leyte Gulf were supply ships. The American forces were already ashore. And “any supply ships I could sink the Americans could replace in two days. So vast were their fleets”. Kurita was an actual skilled and practical Admiral. He had a number of victories against the American Navy in the Solomon’s. But he wasn’t enamored with that often over hyped Japanese Warrior Ethos. He did not believe in wasting the Emperors Men and Machines stupidly to no beneficial purpose. He did not believe in “doing something, just to be seen to be doing something, anything, regardless of results”. And he also knew that nobody was going to be fighting over Leyte. The Army had declined to participate. They had already written Leyte off and planned their defenses for Luzon. He was stuck waging a Battle to make his boss look good, and that nobody else on his side could be bothered to show up for. He said Fuck It! and brought his men home. Honestly looking at things from his perspective it does seem the better strategic choice. There was nothing to be gained by sacrificing the emperors last remaining warships to sink a few transports full or rations and ammo. Not over a scrap of land that the Japanese Army had already written off.
@yamato_tenichigo4 ай бұрын
Thank you for that incisive, insightful, measured and factually accurate comment. If Center Force had continued on the attack on that morning - (keeping in mind that their cruisers had just "crossed the T" on the escorts of Taffy 3 when Kurita pulled them back, and for a brief while the escorts were facing fire from ahead and from the side) - the ships of Taffy 3 would have been sunk. And as a result, Kurita's forces would have been delayed in their getaway and may well have been caught by Halsey's fleet carrier arm, doubling back furiously after realizing that they had been "decoyed" North. Bad enough that Kongo was torpedoed and sunk by a USN sub on the way home. More pointless sacrifice. And Yamato might have gone down ignominiously in 1944 - instead of living on til April 1945 - when her militarily pointless, yet nevertheless brave, sacrifice at Okinawa became, poetically at least for the following generations, an "Alamo-like" symbol of the sacrifice that was necessary so that the old Japan of Bushido could die, and the new, democratic Japan be born. The junior officers of Yamato debated furiously in March of 1945 whether their coming pointless sacrifice was to be devoid of meaning. The debate was settled by one of their number who was wiser beyond his years. I will let the following extract from Yoshida Mitsuru's first hand account tell the story: "The young captain of one of the destroyers grilled Admiral Kusaka's entourage: if, as the parting words of the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet indicate, the power of the Imperial Navy is really to be marshaled for this one battle, 'then why doesn't Admiral Toyoda himself venture out from his bunker at Hiyoshi and assume direct command?' He was voicing the innermost thoughts of the entire crew of this special attack force. What are the prospects for Operation Ten'ichigo? The vehement debate among the officers continues. Those arguing that it can only fail are in the overwhelming majority.... In addition: doubts...that we will be as vulnerable as a man walking alone on a dark night carrying only a lantern;.. ..that midway we will fall victim to airborne torpedoes. (This prediction, subscribed to by a large number of the young officers, will prove to be precisely on the mark.) Against this sharp contention that the mission is doomed to fail, chief officer of the watch Lieutenant Usubuchi..binoculars fixed on the sea at dusk, speaks in a low voice, almost a whisper: 'The side which makes no progress never wins. To lose and be brought to one's senses: that is the supreme path. 'Japan has paid too little attention to progress. We have been too finicky, too wedded to selfish ethics; we have forgotten true progress. How else can Japan be saved except by losing and coming to its senses? If Japan does not come to its senses now, when will it be saved? 'We will lead the way. We will die as harbingers of Japan's new life. That's where our real satisfaction lies, isn't it?' Lieutenant Usubuchi's firmly held opinion becomes the general conclusion of the serious discussion continuing day after day in the wardroom. No one is able to refute it." Lt Usubuchi was killed by a bomb in the opening minutes of Yamato's final battle. Yoshida describes his death in poignant, philosophical terms: "Lieutenant Usubuchi (in charge of the aft secondary guns) is killed by a direct hit. The young warrior who was both wise and courageous leaves behind not one bit of flesh, not one drop of blood. He hoped by dying to awaken new life. His body, offered up in the cause of a genuine national rebirth, has disappeared into thin air." And so Lt Usubuchi's sacrifice, and the sacrifice of his great ship, went on to become the symbol of the sacrifice necessary for the rebirth of the Japanese Nation.
@mralsace16 ай бұрын
Shout out to Fukuda Keiji for his masterpiece of engineering.
@Lonech6 ай бұрын
6:49 agh the pinion is turning the wrong way on the rack...
@f-xdemers28257 ай бұрын
An outstanding video of a glorified machete.
@SurvivingWithFanty9 ай бұрын
FRANKIEonPC brought me here, thanks for this amazing animation!
@Honu-up3ou9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video; it's really impressive. Is there an English translation for all the bullet points?
@markmalasics341311 ай бұрын
The only thing this video lacks is a musical background of Seshyu Hiakowa singing "Remember Pearl Harbor."
@ZeroScotland Жыл бұрын
Somethings bugged me for awhile now and still no answer, if the americans already knew japans anti air capabilities is not good (gun accuracy -100) then why did they still go to use the bombs to take out the AA before torpedo strikes
@yamato_tenichigo Жыл бұрын
The main reason is that "putting holes in the deck" (as well as strafing the decks as all planes were instructed to do until their ammo ran out) took out the AA guns, allowing the slower and more vulnerable torpedo bombers to have a greater chance of success. And once in a while a bomb would hit a magazine and *BOOM*. While it is true that it was the torpedoes that sent Yamato to the bottom, the bomb hits and strafing essentially destroyed all of her AA guns by the end of the 2-hour engagement ... and that early aft bomb hit took out both the rear 6" secondary gun and the ship's radar room, starting a fire that was never extinguished. So the combination of bombs and torpedoes was the most efficient way to get the job done for the USN, as well as to save USN fliers' lives.
@1963Austria Жыл бұрын
Also when this happened, Japan was on their way to defeat. Most of air, navy and land weapons troops had been destroyed, yet in place of bombing, why did not two US battlewagons take on the Yamato.
@memestealer3000. Жыл бұрын
hm.understandble.
@Phillegoy Жыл бұрын
Yukikaze is better than yamato Yukikaze survive ww2 and yamato not so Yukikaze vest
@T0ffik1 Жыл бұрын
English subtitles would be nice - great video
@johnperkins7111 Жыл бұрын
What a wast of time,of no value.
@Jamiek0115 Жыл бұрын
😂I'm sorry I can't read Chinese
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Жыл бұрын
Today is the anniversary of this mission and the sinking of the Yamato.
@OzScalemodeling Жыл бұрын
Amazing video and a great reference for the Fujimi model kit build, Cheers 😀👍 🇭🇲
@rhinehardt1 Жыл бұрын
The animation in this video is excellent and very informative. However, though the use of Japanese is quite natural for the captions, it would have been nice if there had been narration in English.
@Jhossack Жыл бұрын
Technology designed to protect a feudal upperclass that had enslaved its population and committed war crimes against every nation that did not submit. Nice pictures though.
@PaladinThomas Жыл бұрын
Legend of Germans made videos like this showcasing their awesome stuff during the third Reich how much hate they would all get but Japan just seems to skate right through all that. Even though they committed far worse war crimes against all kinds of people but sure they get to keep their flag
@markoliimatainen256511 ай бұрын
Japanese flags predates ww2, so nothing wrong with them. Also it was soviet russia that was the worst and still is the worst country in the world.
@user-ew7gg2wr8c Жыл бұрын
活躍できず残念ですが、大和はやはりロマンの塊です。
@ExUSSailor Жыл бұрын
Ballistically, the 16"/50 Mk. 7s on the Iowa Class were superior. Though smaller in bore, they had superior range, armor penatration, and, accuracy compared to Yamato's 18.1" rifles.
@metaknight115 Жыл бұрын
Wow, every word you said was wrong. Iowa could fire her guns up to 23.6 miles, while Yamato could fire her guns up to 26.1 miles. Battleship New Jersey's curator and various gun tours of Iowa class battleships confirm that Iowa could penetrate up to 18-inches of steel. Testing done with Yamato's guns display that she could penetrate 22.3-inches of steel at point blank range, 19.4-inches at 21,800 yards, and 16-inches at 32,800 yards. At max range, Iowa had a shell dispersion of 600-800 yards, while Yamato had a shell dispersion of 440-550 yards at max range.
@sammidul4080 Жыл бұрын
german did amazing job teach japan to make a thing 👍
@user-sc7vz4ej6i Жыл бұрын
지랄들하네 저거 몇발이나 쏴보고 가라앉았냐? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@k956upg Жыл бұрын
In 2023 in an American turret it would take 25 men 25 women 10 non binary people 10 that identify as furries & 2 that kept changing so couldn’t be counted….then it would take 9 diversity managers 2 lawyers 5 illegal immigrants on training courses & a social worker…& one nurse to keep them vaccinated..
@alfatangokilo Жыл бұрын
HD version request.
@BartJBols Жыл бұрын
so many bits and pieces and gears and different elevators and so forth. Was there really no way to simplify this?
@trstquint7114 Жыл бұрын
Fu#king killing machines. Do we really need this??????
@izzuraulia1231 Жыл бұрын
Can you provide English sub? I like your video I appreciate... But I don't understand...
@user-rk6gd1ty2d Жыл бұрын
ちなみに測距儀を製造したメーカーは、カメラで有名なあの「Nikon」です。
@NFlight Жыл бұрын
The gears are turning the wrong way in the animations...
@hdgehog6 Жыл бұрын
Too bad that thing didn't get in a shooting match! It would have been something to see.......
@housemana Жыл бұрын
yo u can definitely say when these dudes go to war, they go to WAR 🤝
@dipol2017 Жыл бұрын
нихуя ни панятна, но шикатан не отдам
@kwonyjlawify Жыл бұрын
이 거지 같은 배가 뭐 대단하다고. 제대로 싸워보지도 못하고 침몰당한 주제에.
@ScoutSniper3124 Жыл бұрын
Yamato settled on the seafloor 1,200 feet down and about 50 miles southwest of Kyushu, Japan. Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
@jdlamb4212 Жыл бұрын
All that engineering way before it was even possible to visualize it like this. But even in a computer simulation it's insanely complex.
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Great video just wish it was tranlated
epic video
It looks like the Yamato took the best of the American shell elevator from the iowas changed the way the shells got reoriented (iowas just flopped them down with the spinning tray) and then took the Brittish flash car method for powder
System was very complicated.
Any english version?
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Question. Which heavy cruiser partook in the sinking of USS Hoel alongside Kongo and Yamato's secondary battery? My guess would be Haguro, since Hoel sighted her at 6,000 yards and claimed to hit her with torpedoes (though none actually hit).
For all the Yamamoto vs Iowa comments out here. The shells they fired were 460 vs 406. Yes Yamamoto had bigger shells but 406 is more than enough to destroy the armor of Yamamoto. The Iowa was far more maneuverable and faster than Yamamoto it could fire on the move with decent accuracy because of the sighting system. The Iowa would have presented a hard target to hit compared to the slow maneuvering and slow moving Yamamoto. Iowa was built tough enough to take a hit from Yamamoto and keep fighting. If Iowa was hit and lost it's speed and maneuverability it wouldn't last long getting pounded by 460 mm guns.
The Iowa was indeed about 5-7 knots faster than Yamato. Its 16" shells would have been more than sufficient in this hypothetical match-up. Two key advantages of Iowa were its superior radar targeting and faster reload times for its main guns. That said, Yamato had the most advanced optical firing system ever put on a ship and the most advanced IJN radars (She hit just about everything she fired at during the short engagement vs Taffy 3 off Samar Island - including planting an 18" shell that detonated under the keel of USS White Plains escort carrier, knocking her out of action - at 19.6 miles distance, the longest "hit" or "damaging near miss" in naval history. She also sank the USS Johnston, the USS Hoel and escort carrier Gambier Bay with her main and secondary batteries-note - all of these 3 ships were hit by fire from multiple IJN ships, but as Robert Lundgren demonstrates in his book "The World Won'dered-What really Happened Off Samar", it was Yamato that delivered the "kill shots" to each one of these USN vessels.). Anyhow ... it really comes down to which ship could hit the other one first. Yamato's 18.1" shells were likewise more than sufficient to inflict heavy damage on the Iowa class. And Yamato - at least in daylight - had the advantage of the longer 26-mile range of its 18.1" guns.
@@yamato_tenichigo I have a question about the battle off Samar, which destroyers engaged USS Johnston. It is commonly stated six destroyers led by Yahagi engaged her in her final moments, but I've only been able to find Japanese records supporting four destroyers, Yukikaze, Isokaze, Urakaze, and Nowaki? Did only four destroyers engage the tin can, or did two or so Yugumos also take part in the 5-7v1?
@@metaknight115 - I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but the best account shot-by-shot of the Battle off Samar Island, which will have your answer, is Robert Lundgren's book which you can find here: www.amazon.com/World-Wonderd-Really-Happened-Samar/dp/160888046X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Q8FQPGVBF21R&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GHQkNyTTFk0qlEaIP8EBgPqJ2NUUZpSo2fxL98z1J7r79BiSkb7a-e9Syj5oTr-zMt9S4V2irkQSi_rd60rJSLMZzVY8hAdyE-cAIIZJxINaWuQD68c2qrTBB5yTIBSqw2-tKQtljxspCm7FQWVG3fTkfgVZBl3urKKUUzry1NzIbJ6Ckn1b8Ks0p1CZdHXCPmPkMGi9KfiSeaaFZ9FHLdgVCOD2SJS6kzXBdrhwmwE.GFkSdPof16lgie8Ub370ZrIx1hFnyvWsoey2doJ9KLY&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+world+wonders+samar&qid=1716682787&sprefix=the+world+wonderd+samar%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-1
I challenge anyone to go back and look at the technology in the ships of ww2 and tell me we the human race couldn't be building advanced aircraft and technology behind closed doors that the average person would think was alien. They already had radar, sonar guidance systems for their torpedoes and sightings systems so advanced in their big guns they could put a shell the size of a Volkswagen in a pickle barrel 20 miles away. WW2 as tragic as it was advanced the human race decades ahead.
It wasn’t poor Admiralty on Kurita’s part. He was suffering a bit more than from sleep deprivation. He had been subjected to two full days of non stop air attacks from American Carrier planes. His 2 day ordeal started when he was forced to swim for his life when his flagship the cruiser Atago was struck by 4 Submarine torpedoes and sunk. His day got substantially worse as more and more American Carrier planes showed up sinking among other things Yamato’s sister Musashi. He finally managed to get aboard Yamato and pulled his fleet back to escape the carrier planes. That night he turned around and began his run through San Bernadino Strait. And what was the first thing that greeted him? Carrier Airplanes as far as the eye could see. Kurita had been promised air cover from land based Navy planes. What he didn’t learn until far too late was that virtually every Japanese Naval aircraft capable of flight had been destroyed over Formosa 2 weeks prior, when the Americans staged a massive Carrier raid. The Japanese Navy kept feeding planes into the battle because Admiral Toyoda, the head of the Japanese Navy had been visiting Formosa and was trapped there. The Japanese Navy’s air arm was all but wiped out. 500+ planes lost. Which was more than they had lost at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. So they had lied to Kurita. They promised him air cover. And here he was for the second day facing attacks from a vector that he had no defenses for. Kurita wasn’t worried so much about the Johnston and the brave Taffy 3 Escorts. What worried him were the Carrier Planes, whos numbers kept growing as Taffy’s 1 and 2 joined the fight. He didn’t know that they weren’t armed for Anti Ship. He just knew that as the battle progressed he was suddenly facing 200-300 Carrier planes. Kurita had not planned on dying that day or sacrificing all of his men. Even if the high command expected it. He had carefully rationed his fuel to allow for a return trip. And now he was facing what to him looked like an unwinnable fight. He could not enter Leyte Gulf itself because in its restricted waters his heavy surface ships could not maneuver to dodge torpedoes. Further he knew that sinking what he found there was pointless. From his interviews with the US Strategic Bombing assessment Panel in 1946, he knew that MacArthur's forces had landed already landed on Leyte, the day before his fleet set sail from Malaysia. He was fully aware that the only ships left in Leyte Gulf were supply ships. The American forces were already ashore. And “any supply ships I could sink the Americans could replace in two days. So vast were their fleets”. Kurita was an actual skilled and practical Admiral. He had a number of victories against the American Navy in the Solomon’s. But he wasn’t enamored with that often over hyped Japanese Warrior Ethos. He did not believe in wasting the Emperors Men and Machines stupidly to no beneficial purpose. He did not believe in “doing something, just to be seen to be doing something, anything, regardless of results”. And he also knew that nobody was going to be fighting over Leyte. The Army had declined to participate. They had already written Leyte off and planned their defenses for Luzon. He was stuck waging a Battle to make his boss look good, and that nobody else on his side could be bothered to show up for. He said Fuck It! and brought his men home. Honestly looking at things from his perspective it does seem the better strategic choice. There was nothing to be gained by sacrificing the emperors last remaining warships to sink a few transports full or rations and ammo. Not over a scrap of land that the Japanese Army had already written off.
Thank you for that incisive, insightful, measured and factually accurate comment. If Center Force had continued on the attack on that morning - (keeping in mind that their cruisers had just "crossed the T" on the escorts of Taffy 3 when Kurita pulled them back, and for a brief while the escorts were facing fire from ahead and from the side) - the ships of Taffy 3 would have been sunk. And as a result, Kurita's forces would have been delayed in their getaway and may well have been caught by Halsey's fleet carrier arm, doubling back furiously after realizing that they had been "decoyed" North. Bad enough that Kongo was torpedoed and sunk by a USN sub on the way home. More pointless sacrifice. And Yamato might have gone down ignominiously in 1944 - instead of living on til April 1945 - when her militarily pointless, yet nevertheless brave, sacrifice at Okinawa became, poetically at least for the following generations, an "Alamo-like" symbol of the sacrifice that was necessary so that the old Japan of Bushido could die, and the new, democratic Japan be born. The junior officers of Yamato debated furiously in March of 1945 whether their coming pointless sacrifice was to be devoid of meaning. The debate was settled by one of their number who was wiser beyond his years. I will let the following extract from Yoshida Mitsuru's first hand account tell the story: "The young captain of one of the destroyers grilled Admiral Kusaka's entourage: if, as the parting words of the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet indicate, the power of the Imperial Navy is really to be marshaled for this one battle, 'then why doesn't Admiral Toyoda himself venture out from his bunker at Hiyoshi and assume direct command?' He was voicing the innermost thoughts of the entire crew of this special attack force. What are the prospects for Operation Ten'ichigo? The vehement debate among the officers continues. Those arguing that it can only fail are in the overwhelming majority.... In addition: doubts...that we will be as vulnerable as a man walking alone on a dark night carrying only a lantern;.. ..that midway we will fall victim to airborne torpedoes. (This prediction, subscribed to by a large number of the young officers, will prove to be precisely on the mark.) Against this sharp contention that the mission is doomed to fail, chief officer of the watch Lieutenant Usubuchi..binoculars fixed on the sea at dusk, speaks in a low voice, almost a whisper: 'The side which makes no progress never wins. To lose and be brought to one's senses: that is the supreme path. 'Japan has paid too little attention to progress. We have been too finicky, too wedded to selfish ethics; we have forgotten true progress. How else can Japan be saved except by losing and coming to its senses? If Japan does not come to its senses now, when will it be saved? 'We will lead the way. We will die as harbingers of Japan's new life. That's where our real satisfaction lies, isn't it?' Lieutenant Usubuchi's firmly held opinion becomes the general conclusion of the serious discussion continuing day after day in the wardroom. No one is able to refute it." Lt Usubuchi was killed by a bomb in the opening minutes of Yamato's final battle. Yoshida describes his death in poignant, philosophical terms: "Lieutenant Usubuchi (in charge of the aft secondary guns) is killed by a direct hit. The young warrior who was both wise and courageous leaves behind not one bit of flesh, not one drop of blood. He hoped by dying to awaken new life. His body, offered up in the cause of a genuine national rebirth, has disappeared into thin air." And so Lt Usubuchi's sacrifice, and the sacrifice of his great ship, went on to become the symbol of the sacrifice necessary for the rebirth of the Japanese Nation.
Shout out to Fukuda Keiji for his masterpiece of engineering.
6:49 agh the pinion is turning the wrong way on the rack...
An outstanding video of a glorified machete.
FRANKIEonPC brought me here, thanks for this amazing animation!
Thanks for the video; it's really impressive. Is there an English translation for all the bullet points?
The only thing this video lacks is a musical background of Seshyu Hiakowa singing "Remember Pearl Harbor."
Somethings bugged me for awhile now and still no answer, if the americans already knew japans anti air capabilities is not good (gun accuracy -100) then why did they still go to use the bombs to take out the AA before torpedo strikes
The main reason is that "putting holes in the deck" (as well as strafing the decks as all planes were instructed to do until their ammo ran out) took out the AA guns, allowing the slower and more vulnerable torpedo bombers to have a greater chance of success. And once in a while a bomb would hit a magazine and *BOOM*. While it is true that it was the torpedoes that sent Yamato to the bottom, the bomb hits and strafing essentially destroyed all of her AA guns by the end of the 2-hour engagement ... and that early aft bomb hit took out both the rear 6" secondary gun and the ship's radar room, starting a fire that was never extinguished. So the combination of bombs and torpedoes was the most efficient way to get the job done for the USN, as well as to save USN fliers' lives.
Also when this happened, Japan was on their way to defeat. Most of air, navy and land weapons troops had been destroyed, yet in place of bombing, why did not two US battlewagons take on the Yamato.
hm.understandble.
Yukikaze is better than yamato Yukikaze survive ww2 and yamato not so Yukikaze vest
English subtitles would be nice - great video
What a wast of time,of no value.
😂I'm sorry I can't read Chinese
Today is the anniversary of this mission and the sinking of the Yamato.
Amazing video and a great reference for the Fujimi model kit build, Cheers 😀👍 🇭🇲
The animation in this video is excellent and very informative. However, though the use of Japanese is quite natural for the captions, it would have been nice if there had been narration in English.
Technology designed to protect a feudal upperclass that had enslaved its population and committed war crimes against every nation that did not submit. Nice pictures though.
Legend of Germans made videos like this showcasing their awesome stuff during the third Reich how much hate they would all get but Japan just seems to skate right through all that. Even though they committed far worse war crimes against all kinds of people but sure they get to keep their flag
Japanese flags predates ww2, so nothing wrong with them. Also it was soviet russia that was the worst and still is the worst country in the world.
活躍できず残念ですが、大和はやはりロマンの塊です。
Ballistically, the 16"/50 Mk. 7s on the Iowa Class were superior. Though smaller in bore, they had superior range, armor penatration, and, accuracy compared to Yamato's 18.1" rifles.
Wow, every word you said was wrong. Iowa could fire her guns up to 23.6 miles, while Yamato could fire her guns up to 26.1 miles. Battleship New Jersey's curator and various gun tours of Iowa class battleships confirm that Iowa could penetrate up to 18-inches of steel. Testing done with Yamato's guns display that she could penetrate 22.3-inches of steel at point blank range, 19.4-inches at 21,800 yards, and 16-inches at 32,800 yards. At max range, Iowa had a shell dispersion of 600-800 yards, while Yamato had a shell dispersion of 440-550 yards at max range.
german did amazing job teach japan to make a thing 👍
지랄들하네 저거 몇발이나 쏴보고 가라앉았냐? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
In 2023 in an American turret it would take 25 men 25 women 10 non binary people 10 that identify as furries & 2 that kept changing so couldn’t be counted….then it would take 9 diversity managers 2 lawyers 5 illegal immigrants on training courses & a social worker…& one nurse to keep them vaccinated..
HD version request.
so many bits and pieces and gears and different elevators and so forth. Was there really no way to simplify this?
Fu#king killing machines. Do we really need this??????
Can you provide English sub? I like your video I appreciate... But I don't understand...
ちなみに測距儀を製造したメーカーは、カメラで有名なあの「Nikon」です。
The gears are turning the wrong way in the animations...
Too bad that thing didn't get in a shooting match! It would have been something to see.......
yo u can definitely say when these dudes go to war, they go to WAR 🤝
нихуя ни панятна, но шикатан не отдам
이 거지 같은 배가 뭐 대단하다고. 제대로 싸워보지도 못하고 침몰당한 주제에.
Yamato settled on the seafloor 1,200 feet down and about 50 miles southwest of Kyushu, Japan. Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
All that engineering way before it was even possible to visualize it like this. But even in a computer simulation it's insanely complex.
How much rounds of these bullets were on a ship?
Watch at double speed.
This like auto loader in tank
Yamato-Musashi Good Ship for Wrong War