Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "The Last Battleship Designs - The Good, the Bad and the Mad!" video.

Why the hell were these designs ever drafted...? Did literally nobody learn the most important lesson of all, which is that big guns have no offensive capability in a carrier-dominated setting except outside very specific niche scenarios?
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@dSlayer6160 Which is ironic because it was the inability to attack things (specifically, the new capital ships-carriers) that doomed the battleship in WWII.
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@themanformerlyknownascomme777 The Montana. Which is IMO a superior design (more main guns + better TDS while having similar speed and protection), but not by a very big margin, since unlike the Germans with Bismarck the Japanese actually designed the Yamatos pretty well (with some flaws here and there but overall a solid design for her size). Note that the Yamatos were comparable to the Montanas in size if you use their STANDARD displacements (65,000 tons), instead of using the full load displacement for Yamato and the standard displacement for Montana.
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Given that all major WWII powers built or (for the USSR) tried to build battleships that should never have existed, it’s not really surprising.
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The issue is that concept didn’t end up working out as it turned out you didn’t really need a fast big-gun capital ship to defend carriers from enemy fast big-gun capital ships, and that big-gun capital ships couldn’t fight alongside carriers even if they could keep up simply because of the range difference.
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