To: 2banana
The most least advanced battle cruiser of WWII... Unlike other nations battleships which were designed for the longer ranges of the WWII era, Bismarck was a warmed over 1913 design suited to refighting Jutland. Poorly arranged armour, bad torpedo defence system, marginal radar.
28 posted on
12/13/2016 4:30:26 PM PST by
Oztrich Boy
("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
To: Oztrich Boy
Bismarck was a battleship and you are confusing it with HMS Hood.
Only the British and Japanese and Japanese had modernized World War 1 battlecruisers in World War 2. The British had the Repulse Class and HMS Hood (sole member of the Admiral Class.) The Japanese had the Kongo Class.
The Japanese and US also had carriers, what were converted battlecruisers (Lexington,Saratoga, and Kaga)
35 posted on
12/13/2016 5:32:38 PM PST by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Oztrich Boy
An Iowa would have slapped it around and taken its lunch money. Yamoto would have sailed right over it without slowing down.
52 posted on
12/14/2016 10:06:43 AM PST by
TalonDJ
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