the Bismarck class in general is such an over hyped ship like a lot of german ww2 stuff, Bismarck lucky shot and sank a single battle cruiser (ignore it was from the late 1910s and she is modern ship from the late 1930s) and then the depressing story of terpitz that did literally nothing and spent most of her life in port and was sunk by an air attack
funny enough Scharnhorst doesn’t get nearly as much recognition as Bismarck yet was way more effective in combat and did the channel dash lol
No teaser today i guess. Tragic.
Where’s my super hornet?
where’s my Super Tomcat (F-14D)
Has the teaser and dev stream ever been on the same day? (Coping for tomorrow)
Replaced by the F-15 and F/A-18
Ship to ship, as naval thinking still went in 1940, it had no equal. It posed an even greater threat than the one Yamato did at the time of her commissioning, despite being much more powerful, because the strategic situation by then was completely different.
Why do you think the Royal Navy scrambled to sink it? Had they not hunted down the Bismarck, many RN ships would have shared Hoodss fate. Not to mention the serious threat it posed to Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic (which was its actual mission).
Bismarck is highly overrated when compared to the Iowa or Yamato. That comparison doesn’t hold up in real life. It only makes sense in a video game, where the context is different (small maps, unrealistic rate of fire, simplified 3D modeling, etc.).
Hood lasted 8 minutes against Bismarck. As a ship, he was not overrated for the early 1940s.
for how war thunder is set up, even with naval EC, tirpitz will prob be one of the best bb’s in the game…
Just like the graff spee/admiral hipper before the American 6 inch buff…
just like now with the sharnhorst now…
and around with the same time when the kronshtadt was added with nonsense everything
Tirpitz and bismarck…
with war thunder making everything “working” just means tirpitz/bismarck/sharnhorst combo…
(tirpitz is faster than the bismarck) fast enough to make it a higher BR even. NAH, 7.3 battleship material. glory to naval battles!
now, only thing they really have left is the h-39, unless they want to really push it with fully never existed ships…
soyuz second it has 400mm of armor, way more than the Iowa having the same caliber
What I find very odd is in Mobile, the Tirpitz is lower rank then Bismarck
its mobile wt… nothing makes sense besides “it costs more money”
It has a 420mm belt in certain places, 10mm more than Yammy.
Also speaking of the 88kg filler sap will be killer on the Soyuz, should also get a 100kg filler HE. Also the fire control should be similar to what the U.S. would’ve been using near the end of the war.
Nazi propaganda certainly played its part, no doubt. However, face to face, ship to ship, you can’t deny the impact Bismarck had in its time (again, even with Nazi propaganda taken into account).
The situation of the Kriegsmarine as a whole during the war was a different story, as was the course of the war for Germany after 1943. Each aspect needs to be analyzed in its proper historical context.
Bismarck’s life was as epic as it was brief. While it lasted, it was a ship to be feared.
RN scrambled to sink Bismark because it finally left port and was vulnerable.
Yes it posed a threat to allied shipping. But please do remember Bismark was outnumbered in the Atlantic and Channel by a massive ratio. Bismark was never going to survive a pitched engagement with the RN, so close to it’s door step. That’s why she ran to the safety of France, not much of a super weapon if she cannot defend herself.
As for the threat to shipping even if Bismark had been at sea every day of the war up until 1942 she still wouldn’t have sunk a fraction of the tonnage that the U boat fleet did.
Bismark was as much a propaganda target as it was a military threat.
ANDOR REFERENCE WTH IS A SUB 9.5/10 RATING… Star Destroyers when Gaijin?
420mm across two plates vs 410mm over one plate
That’s basically what I said, once in the Atlantic, it would become a “Flying Dutchman.” Just look at the damage the Graf Spee caused with far less power projection. And again, Bismarck is not Germany, not the Axis, not the Kriegsmarine.
It’s a single ship that, in its time, was truly something to be feared.
Once in the Atlantic it would have been destroyed and crippled it would have had to limp back to port and like it’s sister ship spent the war cowering in Norway from any overflying aircraft.
Sinking of the Bismark reinforced what the RN and others already knew and that was air power wins Naval battles. Bismark could have been the Yamato/Iowa and the end result would have been the same.