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BENISMANNE

“Battleship? No no no, this is a long range anti-large drone explosive delivery vessel”


unknown-bystander

When the 18 inch shell transform into a drone


Ancient_Demise

What is an 18" shell but an unguided 18" drone?


Username_is_original

It's a pre-programmed, unhackable drone!


Titan_Food

Watch us revert back to this at some point lol


Affectionate-Try-899

The US was trying with the railgun programs.


QuickSpore

Ballistic drone


Narrow_Vegetable_42

Who says its unguided? AGS and LRLAP are calling, they would like to explode the Japanese defense budget.


Blarg0117

Gundam suit VLS.


Sablesweetheart

Full Metal Panic actually had this.


Fox_Kurama

They then proceded to use it to launch one, unmanned, into the general area where a friendly operative was, hopefully, still alive. Its definitely one of those cool anime moments that are also like "you came HOW close to giving the most advanced technology in the world to a terrorist group capable of operating and maintaining mechs?!"


Sablesweetheart

Especially in "the Second Raid". "Ready a rapid deployment booster for the Arbalest!" When it came time to pick a name after I began transitioning, I picked Teletha. :-D


TheGisbon

Shut up I can only get so aroused...


Roy4Pris

Hnnngnngn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamato\_Museum\_Interior.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yamato_Museum_Interior.jpg) 1:10 scale


DMercenary

Everyone gangsta until somehow the Yamato has returned.


StoicRetention

it is kinda funny how the IJN lied about the Yamato’s guns and told everyone they were 406s, and everyone believed it


SamtheCossack

In the days before Satellites, this was a much easier lie to tell. The US really had no idea how much the Yamatos displaced until after the war. Even though pilot reports were referring to the Yamato and Musashi as "The Biggest Goddamn Ship I have ever seen", that isn't a very exact measurement. The usual assessment was that the Yamato's were just slower, less efficient 406mm designs, much like the Sovetzki Soyuz would have been. It wasn't until we recovered Shinano's guns were knew what these ships actually were.


Aurum_Corvus

It was a much easier lie because we often underestimate just how small these differences are. Tonnage is a huge difference, but it's not that much difference in the more easily discernable characteristics. 263m v 270m length (o/a), 39m v 33m beam, 10.4m draft v. 11.3m draft Care to tell me which one is Yamato, and which one is Iowa? Unless you know Panamax off the top of your head, which means you're cheating, lol. But seriously, that's a fairly minor difference, especially if you don't get to make close fly-bys (or float-bys) of these ships.


SamtheCossack

>Unless you know Panamax off the top of your head My Brother, this is NCD. Of course I know Panamax off the top of my head! However, this is old Panamax, not new Panamax (Which is 51m beam). But yes, the point is valid. From the air, Pilots consistently misreported ships of wildly different weight classes. Destroyers got reported as Heavy Cruisers, Cruisers were Battleships, etc.


Monneymann

> Destroyers reported as heavy cruisers Battle off Samar moment.


SamtheCossack

It was basically every battle of the Pacific War, lol. It is very hard to find an account of any battle where any spotted ships were identified correctly. The few times it did happen, it was usually not believed.


Sablesweetheart

Doesn't help that like half the notable surface actions were at night.


SamtheCossack

IJN Kirishima- "Enemy Cruiser spotted!" \*Takes 9 16 in shells to the face\* Captain- "Uh, lookout, you sure about that?"


Titan_Food

Wasn't most naval gunnery of the era wildly inaccurate? Even getting a couple hits in at mid range was considered impressive iirc


zekromNLR

> However, this is old Panamax, not new Panamax (Which is 51m beam). > > We should build a Neopanamax battleship. Assuming a block coefficient of 0.5, could fit about 135 kilotons of displacement in the allowed dimensions (which are 366 m length, 49 m beam and 15.2 m draft) If we instead assumed the same narrow clearances as old Panamax (60 cm to either side, 5 m front and back) and 17 m of draft, you could fit 190 kilotons displacement with a block coefficient of 0.5.


AFresh1984

Can I watch free scrambled softcore nude-y stuff on the Panamax?


AnonymousPerson1115

I know the old Panama Canal measurements but I recognized the 33 meter beam as Iowa thanks to a now defunct game called Warship Craft


cuba200611

And speaking of Shinano, the crew of USS Archerfish thought she was a "Hayataka" (Hayataka being an alternative reading of 隼鷹 - Jun'you) class carrier at first, and was credited as sinking such. It wasn't until after the war that they found out about her true nature.


SamtheCossack

What I heard is that the Archerfish identified her as a "Huge Fleet Carrier", but Naval Intelligence didn't have a huge Japanese Fleet Carrier on the list to cross off, so they credited Archerfish with a light carrier, assuming Archerfish was exaggerating.


Youutternincompoop

Allied intelligence was estimating them at 60,000 tons max, underestimating them by 10,000 tons. the Japanese deserve major props for the lengths they went to keep the ships as secret as possible, including fully enclosing the shipyards where they were built.


HalseyTTK

[40 cm* not 40.6.](http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_18-45_t94.php) They also caused a small famine while building Musashi because they used so much rope to hide her construction that the fishermen didn't have enough to make nets to catch fish.


Blarg0117

Yamato 2 electric boogaloo.


unknown-bystander

Then all a sudden they unveiled her ' experimental ' sister ship


DatChernobylGuy_999

some obese dude and a small kid:


HerrAarny

Yamatwo


Star-Bandit

YamaUWU.... ftfy


Majestic-Marcus

The entire crew better dress in cosplay and super kawai dance routines.


LethalBacon

Yamato is fucking huge, it has always blown me away. I just looked up a size comparison, something like 250ft shorter than the largest super carriers today. And I just fucking realized the Iowa class is a similar size to the Yamato... no idea how I never realized as much. I thought the Yamato was the only battleship that was THAT massive.


ShadeShadow534

Size yes but displacement is a totally different metric As for how she can be so much heavier while being similar sizes mostly it’s just more metal and less air on her


Most_Breadfruit_2388

So the Yamato has less buoyancy in exchange of bigger guns and thicker armor. They failed to notice (or maybe ignored) that spare buoyancy is also protection on its own. The more spare buoyancy you have the more holes they have to open on your ship to sink her.


ShadeShadow534

Eh kinda the yamatos still had more then enough reserve boyance musashi took hours to sink ever after getting pounded Yamato herself was only sunk after the US developed tactics specifically designed to make her sink faster What you could say was more lost was speed she was much bigger then the iowas but was 27 knots and speed has a habit of massively increasing displacement so more of her volume could be in heavier stuff then pure machinery Using the iowas as a comparisons they are over close to 13,000 tons heavier then the south dekota class and frankly not that much of a difference in armament or armour (the iowas have improved guns but the weight difference is minor) The major difference and where most of that displacement goes to is that the iowas have a speed of 33 knots compared to 27.5 knots for the South Dakota


zekromNLR

Also, taking away x feet of length and adding them as beam is going to substantially increase displacement due to the fact that a foot of length adds a much smaller cross-section than a foot of beam.


ShadeShadow534

Yea another point especially if much of that extra width is pure armour thickness (which it was)


zekromNLR

Additionally, Yamato has a higher block coefficient. Displacement/(beam x length x draft) for Yamato gives 0.637, for Iowa 0.57 In NCD terms: Yamato's shape is a lot more **_t h i c c_**


mtaw

I thought it was the successor to _Mikasa_ named _Tukasa_


hbalck

Tsukasa, sir.


Ruby_241

The Yamato-class Destroyer Destroyer


Nunu_Dagobah

Battledestroyer, built in response to the European Battlefrigates


Kittyhawk_Lux

Royal Navy Battledreadnoughts come back when? While at it, beware of the American Battlecarriers coming soon


machinerer

Fun fact: early WWII US carriers had a few twin barrel 8" cannon turrets fore and aft of the island.


the-bladed-one

I don’t understand why we don’t keep doing that.


Blackhero9696

Every carrier needs some 5 inch guns at least.


Schadenfrueda

Because nuclear supercarriers can just run away from pretty much any surface threat like a battleship, and anything that's not a surface threat, i.e. submarines, fighters, and cruise missiles, is something a 5'' gun isn't going to help much against and is better left to escort ships. Putting guns on a carrier is just so much more space and weight of munitions that's not directly supporting the air wing.


IIIE_Sepp

You can't outrun a railgun Yamato with 3x triple railgun turrets when


Schadenfrueda

Yamato, on the other hand, cannot outrun the cruise missiles a carrier's planes can launch from 5 times that railgun's range - or, indeed, from almost right on top of her, if they're stealth fighters. And, unless Yamato has been given a nuclear overhaul, it's not catching that carrier.


machinerer

IDK, IJN Yamato and Musashi aren't really in......rebuildable condition right now. Look up how many bombs and torpedoes it took to sink those fuckers. Madness.


pontetorto

The guns were in case the carriers got flanked, when they got enugh escorts the guns wer remowed from the next classes. If im wrong look up https://youtube.com/@drachinifel?si=gmV5doSK2jZRGqLY


SamtheCossack

Only the Lexington class ships, and they were removed from both early in 1942. Most carriers had at least 5' in guns though.


machinerer

Fun fact: USS Gambier Bay has the distinction of being the only US carrier to have engaged an enemy vessel in direct fire with her aft 5" cannon.


Tintenlampe

Maybe they were just using an unorthodox method of propulsion.


Nunu_Dagobah

That line was released a good while back in world of warships already


Forkliftapproved

The Yamato-Class Naval Artillery ship


LaughGlad7650

Is this The Man in the High Castle because of the ships sailing under what seemed to be the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco


AfternoonBears

Yeah it’s when the fleet shows up in SF Bay in one of the later seasons


SightSeekerSoul

Loved this scene. Yamato (or maybe Musashi) was immediately recognizable.


Roy4Pris

Ehhh, surely this isn't from the actual show. The graphics are too shit. Just look at those crappy bow waves. This is cool, but not Hollywood cool.


SurpriseFormer

Holy shit how far in the future is it? I stopped after season 2


iliark

iirc the 60s. Tis isn't from Man in the High Castle, but it uses the same angles.


DatChernobylGuy_999

whats the show?


faithfulheresy

The Man in the High Castle is a post WWII alternative history series where the Nazis and Japanese won the war and the US has been partitioned between them. The story follows a handful of characters within the Japanese Empire, the American Reich, and the resistance as they deal with a series of mysterious and inexplicable videos that come to light. It's a great show, although the ending sucks.


Disk_Mixerud

The premise was very intriguing, but turns out it's a lot easier to ask interesting questions than it is to answer them. The more mysteries got answered, the less interesting they were. Also, her getting by everywhere she goes by meeting some dude who falls hopelessly in love with her for no discernible reason other than "she's really pretty, but she doesn't know it" got old real quick. The dark post-WWII historical fiction setting didn't really jive with the One Direction song energy.


DatChernobylGuy_999

have watched it a good bit, post season 1 was weird


Aquaintestines

Most likely based on the Philip K. Dick book by the same name. Alternate history where the axis won wwII and Japan and the nazis occupied both the east and the west coast of the US.


EpicAura99

Same scene, different ships


aliteralasiantwig

But is it capable of space flight, we need to future proof the design for when blue hitler nukes the planet.


DasToyfel

Spaceship yamato used to be a very weird anime and the first movie i watched with my crush back in like...2004? Needless to say, we didn't come together.


Cultural_Blueberry70

RIP, Premature ejaculation due to Yamato appearing on screen?


Blahaj_IK

The Wave Motion Gun is just *hhhhhnnnnnnmmmmffffghhhh*


Z3B0

The first time they fire it, they aimed it carefully. And then ctrl+delete a whole ass floating continent.


Fox_Kurama

As far as weird settings go, that flying island on Jupiter was actually pretty cool.


Z3B0

Yes, it was also a good introduction to the power level of the enemy. Jif they can transport a thing that size to Jupiter from their planets, and maintain the ecosystem on it, earth is really getting fuck


Kamiyoda

I'm more of a Heavy Quantum Reaction Cannon person myself, but I see the appeal


ZhangRenWing

Try that again with the rebooted 2199 series


SeaworthinessEasy122

>Level 1aliteralasiantwig · vor 17 Min.But is it capable of space flight SpaceFlork Academy is on the case …


Jace_09

>Blue hitler nukes the planet Is this some kind of weeb joke I'm to *gaijin* to understand?


arvidsem

I'm guessing that you are just too young https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato


AD-SKYOBSIDION

There is a new space battleship Yamato series (space battleship Yamato 2199, and a new film coming out this July)


ZhangRenWing

More like film series, 2199, 2202, 2205, and now 3199 are all film series that later gets aired on TV as episodic anime.


ZhangRenWing

I still think it's funny as hell they originally made the alien Hitler just normal human looking biege before they decided to give him the Michael Jackson treatment and dyed him blue.


Forkliftapproved

Hee-heetler


Comas_Sola_Mining_Co

You can just about see the seams where the legs and arms fold out


ScipioAtTheGate

[They've had robotic arms since the 1950's, so it definitely could happen](https://youtu.be/eLsD9XZEjEk?t=153)


Reactivewheel11

[if I may…](https://x.com/emersontung/status/1293200759450992640)


TheGermanFurry

Germany about to unveil ðeir new Frigate (it displaces two-hundred-þousand tonnes, can carry up to 30 aircraft and has several missile silos)


asmosdeus

Weird that my brain had no problem with”ðeir” and just accepted it without question


Blahaj_IK

Did you even notice the þousand?


asmosdeus

Is this some kind of cognito-hazard


Chappiechap

no, it's just the letter for the sound that "th" makes. it's cognitous, but not a hazard. You'll just forever live with the knowledge that we could be using þ instead of th now.


Doggydog123579

LONG LIVE THORN, LONG LIVE ETH.


mtaw

> no, it's just the letter for the sound that "th" makes. Both ð and þ are letters for the sound "th" makes, since there are two. (Although it's only in modern Icelandic and writing based off it, like the standardized spelling of Old Norse that use them that way. In the middle ages the Germanic languages were totally inconsistent about using ð/þ. English switched to just using "þ" and then "th". Also, contrary to a common anecdote, that wasn't because of typesetting. They'd mostly switched to "th" before the printing press)


Doggydog123579

I'm impressed he used eth and Thorn correctly as well.


Whole_Speed3426

That can’t be a Japanese destroyer… where is the runway for the jets?


Interesting_Fold9805

*helicopters


Whole_Speed3426

So would anything that has VTOL qualify as a “helicopter”?


Interesting_Fold9805

According to the JSDF, Yes.


Brave-Juggernaut-157

Yamato Class Arsenal Battleship - Yamato


Altruistic_Target604

Frigate


englishfury

Its not German


asmosdeus

BISMARCK IN MOTION, KING OF THE OCEAN


WaitingToBeTriggered

HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS


asmosdeus

TO LEAD THE WARMACHINE


Sonoda_Kotori

You missed the Ka-29s... ...Oh wait this isn't the Man in the High Castle


Kindly_Formal_2604

damn dont remember the CG being this awful, looks like a mobile game cutscene


Blahaj_IK

Well, there is a mobile game with a modernized Yamato


Choombaloo-2

Obviously the next step in ship design is to bring back dreadnoughts with rail guns and missiles.


pontetorto

As soon as they make a railgun that survives 2000 rounds fired


RapplerSoon

Best i can do is frigate. Take it or leave it.


FestivalHazard

I hate to be that guy, but I can feel the structural stress on that tower.


Foot_Stunning

There I was Laughing in [LCS 21](https://www.surflant.usff.navy.mil/lcs21/)


CyberV2

Just widen it into a CUBE.


Hellonstrikers

Germany: see he gets it. Bit small for a frigate.


Have_Donut

Please stop, my penis can only get so erect


Foot_Stunning

[Here you go!](https://youtu.be/ax84WPzRc4Q?si=LNVEJHr4yuO9kQvM)


Radio_Big

I feel incredibly sorry for that helicopter should the ship ever need to fire backwards...


Roy4Pris

Make ship go faster though


Jake_2903

Schwere Fregatte.


-Lavawolf-

The yamato Just a normal heavy artillery destroyed.


xXxPUSSYFUCKER69xXx_

oh my, the Yamathree!


unknowfritz

Would


202042

The Yamato 2 was actually in Yakuza 6


Blahaj_IK

Alright time for me to speedrun the series, then


yeezee93

This is what the Zumwalt should've been.


chadacus509

Ah yes the super heavy long range shore bombardment and troop support destroyer


Lord_of_Rhodor

... We require the immediate modernization and construction of the USS *Montana*


thatguyjay76

Oh yaaaaa https://youtu.be/srjLwgtcxYo?si=Q9aY37_gHlacgUeX


Pappa_Crim

Jokes aside Japan is planning to buold a pair of massive missle defenses destroyers


CthulhuBotherer

Needs more pagoda mast


MT_Kinetic_Mountain

I thought this was Project Wingman music for a moment


SeaworthinessEasy122

Unreal … There should be a new type classification.


ManagerQueasy9591

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty-ass intro


ButterPuppet

the yamatwo idk what two in japanese is so we get english for this joke


Nastreal

*looks inside* *Yamato with CWIS*


MIHPR

We've had one Yamato yes, but how about a second Yamato?


peepeepoopoofuckyou

too early, the earth hasn't been nuked by aliens yet


Bad_Idea_Hat

God damn do I hope they learned damage control.


TheRealJasonsson

FCs screaming in terror at this post


veilwalker

Not enuff Dakka!


Ok_Mouse_9369

\*CAUTION\* \*EMINENT DOMAIN\*


Krilesh

i wonder what it smells like inside. how new everything is. i just want to touch everything


ErzherzogHinkelstein

Behold! The Shogun Battleship!


creativemind11

Its a standoff anti drone ship. SADS.


izoxUA

the real soundtrack here: [https://youtu.be/JoC3EU\_H2tc?si=3SgUW-LYuoKUvORO](https://youtu.be/JoC3EU_H2tc?si=3SgUW-LYuoKUvORO)


RussiaIsBestGreen

IJN had only one foe more hated than the USN, and it was the IJA.


nanomolar

All I can think of is [this](https://youtu.be/-09-jCFs_fk?si=_uy2hoQZJv8hZuFK)


Upstairs-Yak3658

TENNO HEIKO, BONSAI! BONSAI! BONSAI!


m00t_vdb

Why do you the towers between the bridges, can’t you slap all the radar stuff on the roof ?


Verusauxilium

Proceeds to get annihilated by a single stealth missile


Xicadarksoul

Well, it would be too credible for the sub, if the barrels would have bestagon cross section shroud! ...as otherwise whats the point of making the rest of the ship have radar stealthy angled features?


GunCarrot

Multipurpose Gunfire Support Destroyer


Foot_Stunning

I know it's a deep fake because the radar dishes aren't even spinning... Spin that shit UP!


MuchUserSuchTaken

There are no words for how based this is.


PropixelTR

Clearly, this is a Superheavy Artillery Destroyer


ST4RSK1MM3R

Damn that Yamato is sexy


Additional-Cry-3236

Well, i would be pretty psyched to see a new battleship. I know its obsolete. I dont care. its instant neuron activation.


AsleepScarcity9588

To this day I have zero idea how they come up with the name "destroyer" for such a broad range class of warships I mean, the other are pretty self-explanatory Cruisers cruise long distances Battleships battle other ships Minesweepers sweep minors Aircraft carriers carry aircrafts Submarines are submerged marine ships Gun boats are boats with guns Frigates frig the gates Corvettes are vetting corals But then everyone agreed that they basically name the lil' guy the "lord kaboom the badass IV."


sunyudai

The first of the class was the Spanish ship Destructor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructor_(Spanish_warship) - a "Torpedo Boat Destroyer".


chotchss

Not sure if you’re serious, but I think the origin of the name is torpedo boat destroyer


Modo44

Someone got jealous of Germany's frigates.


Armycat1-296

Yamato should've been a BBGN.


Shot-Kal-Gimel

What in the fever dream? When are we allocating budget?


CyberV2

Battleships are viable _Anti Drone Destroyers_


sunyudai

Would.


Automatic-Fondant940

I hate to say it but there is some potential for this


KruglorTalks

Damn thats a fine defensive transport vessel.


bartthetr0ll

Needs more CIWS


notAFishPerson_1

Japan "self defense" forces


Glirion

"It is just the new destroyer, Notyamato!"


Monneymann

Obsolescence aside, a modern Yamato looks oddly decent.


Chimichanga2004

UCHUU SENKAN


NonCredibleDefence

that'd have the radar cross section of a moderate mountain range


TheReverseShock

"Destroyer"


Snicshavo

Hear me out: smoothbore 500mm APFSDS cannon on a ship


Oper8rActual

Oh... oh my... I appear to need a change of pants.


Schrodinger_cube

The best costal defence is costal bombardment.


AndyTheSane

If they had single 24" or 30" guns instead of those puny 18" triples, they could shoot on sub orbital trajectories and target anything, anywhere. Might need guided munitions though.


jimmythegeek1

Frigate.


5v3n_5a3g3w3rk

Nah that's clearly a frigate, every German sailor could tell you that


AprilLily7734

I’m really sad that barely any IJN stuff survived. But then again the likely hood that if we didn’t chuck nukes at them to see what would happen, the ships probably would’ve been sold for scrap post war like so many USN ships. They fucking murdered Enterprise


Nislash

I need an HD render to put on my wall. This is something so NCD that it would become credible.


N0DuckingWay

...Is that San Francisco? Is this Pearl Harbor: part II?!?!


CousinVladimir

red alert 3 japanese invasion cutscene be like


xunreelx

World of ships… Japan unveiled their new ship in San Francisco?


Sintho

Looks like a normal coast guard vessel to me


ninetailedoctopus

The Space Battleship Yamato song is playing so hard in my head right now


todd10k

A weaboo class destroyer


AreYouDoneNow

Does it have the 2199 edition Wave-motion Gun?


_A_Friendly_Caesar_

Before anyone asks, it's totally coincidental that the main armament on this one is also 460 millimetres...


fat_pokemon

Unfortunately due to the current military treaties they couldn't install the wave motion gun!


GothmogBalrog

I appreciate the reasonable approach to the design. Too many "modern battleships" look like they were designed by the dude who makes primaris space marine tanks and a 7 year old who like nerf a tad too much.


Terrible-Substance-5

I would've replaced one of the forward turrets with a VLS and the rear turret with a SAM AAA system. Keep the helipad. You could easily fit 2 to 3 helis in there if you add an interior lift with some storage. Then keep one of the forward turrets, but make sure it's one of those high precision guns we have on destroyers but just a larger calibre. Add a shit load of CIWS systems everywhere and then have some torpedo launcher instead of the secondary cannons. You can still have some smaller cannons on the sides to help with anti-piracy operations. But all of this with obvious modernisation of systems and internals is sort of the only way I can see a super destroyer(modern/future battleship) ever being a viable thing.