Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "PQ-17 - A Convoy Scatters ... To Their Doom" video.

And this is probably the single worst loss of WWII caused by overestimating the enemy, with the Battle of the Komandorski Islands probably being a distant second. Also: it’s ironic that Duke of York and Washington went on to be the only two of the 29 battleships of the era to actually do their job (killing enemy capital ships in the absence of more cost-effective alternatives)
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What would have happened if PQ-17 continued as normal and Tirpitz did actually sortie?
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DoY and Washington achieve their unique distinction as “WWII fast battleships to have done their job” ahead of schedule. Tirpitz dies.
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@genericpersonx333 The battleship had no real effect here, the actual issue was unfounded paranoia.
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@Axterix13 The entire point of surviving a beating was to dish it out, which SoDak fundamentally failed to do. It’s also why battleships were rendered superfluous in the carrier era; survivability isn’t of much use if the enemy can’t be threatened by you.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 The French and the other Axis navies as well. There’s a reason the only navy to not use AoN was the one not allowed to innovate new designs.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 They were effectively WWI designs with WWII-era propulsion and fire control technology.
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@TTTT-oc4eb Bismarck took a bunch of hits to actually sink, but not nearly that many to be reduced to floating wreckage. You’re also ignoring that shells were historically rather ineffective at inflicting damage due to mostly causing damage above the waterline.
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@randomlyentertaining8287 Said ships are either older vessels or were in circumstances where airpower could have done the job.
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Tirpitz remains a failure, Nazi Germany wins (or gets the chance to pull off a win) by doing nothing and not using their failure of a ship.
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@TTTT-oc4eb Which could have happened if the Germans simply faked battleship construction and bluffed…
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