Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "The Refit of HMS Hood - But what if she had survived?" video.

HMS Hood was a beautiful ship and it's rebuild, as you postulate, improves on both her looks and ability to fight as a proper Battleship. Her loss unjustly damages her reputation and incorrectly boosts the reputation of an inefficiently designed ship like Bismarck. Her loss is the result of both excellent gunnery from that ships crew and well as rolling a natural 100 (twice in a row) on percentile dice. An often overlooked fact is PoW's own incredible gunnery in hitting Bismarck at all given the total lack of training of its crew and faults still occurring. The quality of Bismarck's gunnery also show how silly are the claims that her crew was untrained and thus excusing her very poor showing against the Swordfish and later KGV and Rodney.
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@Silamon2 I admit I have my doubts about the excuses made for Bismarck's AA gunnery. Given the very small numbers of aircraft attacking her, it seems she had a pretty strong AA armament. The to slow excuse doesn't hold up against the manually aimed weapons.
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