To: GATOR NAVY
that is big. How does it compare to our current battleships?
3 posted on
07/03/2006 8:44:33 AM PDT by
CJ Wolf
(defender of Flip Flops)
To: CJ Wolf
Ours are on top of the water?
5 posted on
07/03/2006 8:45:42 AM PDT by
null and void
(Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. - Agatha Christy)
To: CJ Wolf
what current battleships?
6 posted on
07/03/2006 8:46:04 AM PDT by
camle
(Keep your mind open and somebody will fill if full of something for you.)
To: CJ Wolf
I believe that all our battleships are of WWII vintage.
To: CJ Wolf
The Yamato, and her sister Musashi, were the largest battleships ever made.
8 posted on
07/03/2006 8:46:52 AM PDT by
Gator101
To: CJ Wolf
We no longer have any active duty battleships and haven't for almost 15 years.
But if you're referring to the Iowa class, the Yamato class weighed in around 70,000 tons and mounted 9, 18-inch gins. The Iowa weighed in around 45,000 tons with 9 16-inch guns.
That said, in a one-on-one dual, I would put my money on the an Iowa except at point blank range.
10 posted on
07/03/2006 8:50:27 AM PDT by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: CJ Wolf
There are no current battle-ships.
The IOWA class was dsigned and built to have two of them beat the snot out of the BISMARCK. The YAMATO was bigger still, with larger guns.
11 posted on
07/03/2006 8:50:35 AM PDT by
quikdrw
(Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
To: CJ Wolf
12 posted on
07/03/2006 8:53:14 AM PDT by
edzo4
To: CJ Wolf; GATOR NAVY
There are no current Battleships. Here are a couple of shots of the USS Iowa being taken through the Carquinez Straights, enroute to joining the Mothball fleet.
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I'd really like to see the Iowa become a Museum Ship.
20 posted on
07/03/2006 9:01:57 AM PDT by
SmithL
(The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
To: CJ Wolf
From what I remember, the Japanese figured out the largest ship that could go through the Panama Canal, then spec'd
ships to be able to [theoretically] outclass them.
However, during the battle of Leyte Gulf, a little destroyer escort chased the Yamato out of the battle for about
10 minutes with a salvo of 3 torps.
Germany had a love for big railway guns. I think I saw that the amount of steel used in just one could
have outfitted a tank battalion.
I think Japan seriously misjudged the amount of naval air power that the US was able to deploy against the
Japanese fleet. After all, once their carriers were no longer a threat, what ships did they think was
going to be high on the target list?
To: CJ Wolf
The Yamato was 65,027 tons displacement, with 460 mm (18.1") guns. It would have out gunned the Missouri 58,000 tons, 16" guns. The difference in caliber meant that the Yamato could have "stood off " from the Missouri and lobed shells with devastating effect.
The Missouri had radar assisted gun laying (mainly for ranging, the largest source of error in WW-II naval artillery), if she could have closed to 16" range in bad weather or at night, she could have probably bested the Yamato.
In the event, it was moot, as the Yamato was sunk by U.S. naval aircraft as soon as she put to sea. Some historians feel that she was on suicide mission; for the Yamato to have survived the war would have been a severe embarrassment for the Imperial Navy.
53 posted on
07/03/2006 9:37:58 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: CJ Wolf
The closest thing we have in destructive force to a Battleship is the Aircraft Carrier. However, if you are looking in the CRUDES class the Ticongeroga cruisers are next.
Here they are in comparison
|
IJN Yamato |
USS Ronald Reagan |
USS Anzio |
Length (in feet) |
862.5 |
1092 |
567 |
Beam (in feet) |
121 ft |
134 ft |
55 |
Displacement(tons) |
72,800
|
(3) 20mm CIWS |
9,600 |
Speed (in knots) |
27 |
30+ |
30 |
Main Battery |
(9) 18.1" Guns
|
Strike Aircraft |
(2) 61-cell VLS Missile Launchers |
Secondary Battery |
(6) 6.1"
|
0 |
(2) 4-cell Harpoon Anti-ship Missile Launchers |
AA Guns |
(190) 1"-2" Guns
|
(3) 20mm CIWS |
(2) 20mm CIWS |
Missiles |
0
|
(2) Sea Sparrow 8-cell Launchers (2) RAM 21-cell launchers |
(2) 61-cell VLS launchers |
Aircraft |
7
|
80+ |
2 Helicopters |
Catapults |
2
|
4 |
0 |
To: CJ Wolf
It was about 70,000 tons compared to about 45,000 tons for Iowa class battleships, one or two of which we periodically renovate anduse for shore bombardment. None of our battleships is currently on active duty.
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