Comments by "Katy" (@KatyushaLauncher) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. Yamato was trash
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  2. Good luck hitting anything with those inferior Radar and range finders
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  3. A test conducted that the 16 inch guns of the Iowas were capable of penetrating a thickest armor of Yamato which was 650mm. In a real battle they would be exchanging fires from broadsides in which side armor will be the ones to take the hit, and remember that the maximum thickness of Yamato's side armor is 410mm so if Iowa's gun could penetrate 650mm, it could the same to against 410mm
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  4. 40KM is the maximum range of Yamato's guns but her effective range would be 20-24KM and a test conducted on USS Iowa could only hit a broadside target at the range of 27 miles is 2.7% which is dramatically low
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  5. IJN Battlecruiser Kirishima was never a battleship so that comparison is terrible
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  6.  @manilajohn0182  The Yamato's face turret plate, which is which is the one they used, was 650mm thick. Her side armor only got to a maximum thickness of 410mm So if the gun could penetrate 650mm, it could do it against 410mm
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  7.  @manilajohn0182  The U.S. used reduced powder charges to simulate the range on those test, so you saying that no battleship armor is designed to take point blank gunfire is false as the U.S. did use reduced powder charges to simulate the range meaning if the U.S. wanted to look at how a 16 inch shell could penetrate Yamato's armor at let's at a range of 20KM they would use less powder charges since in a real battle a 16 inch shell fired from a range of 20KM would not travel that fast
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  8.  @manilajohn0182  Shooting at point blank range with reduced powder charges may not simulate range that accurately but it was only thing they can do back in those times At about 40,000 yards, the U.S. Navy 16"/50 firing a 16" Mark 8 Mod 6 AP projectile (the later Mod 7 and Mod 8 designs were post-WWII, so I usually do not count them and they were no better ballistically, to my knowledge) will hit at about 45° downward angle and 1607 feet/second (489.8 m/sec). Just as with a point blank hit at 2500 feet/second (762 m/sec) and 45° obliquity, this hit too will barely hole the plate as the projectile is hitting at 0° (normal) obliquity, though not completely penetrate it. Any slight barrel wear will lower the muzzle and striking velocities and no holing will occur at these or any other ranges, as mentioned. However, this is so far above any real fighting range (even with radar it is hard to see the target due to the earth's curvature interfering, especially in any kind of imperfect seeing conditions) that I do not even consider it in my computations, while putting the gun barrel up to almost touching the enemy turret is also a pipe dream in real life! Thus, no holing or complete penetrations, ever, though possibly some cracking of the plate and possible jamming of the turret if the crack-off plate piece is dislodged badly enough. Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by any gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! And they said guns had completely overmatched all armor - not so!!! I took that from the test that they did, and it says right that no gun could penetrate that turret face plate as it was leaning back at 45° but that means that Iowa's gun could penetrate any other part of Yamato's armor which was not as thick as turret plate but also is not leaning at an angle of 45°. With all that said Iowa's gun may not be able to penetrate a 650mm turret plate of Yamato but Iowa could penetrate any other part of her armor that's not as thick or leaning at 45°
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  9.  @manilajohn0182  I may have to ask but what's an immunity zone?
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  10.  @manilajohn0182  it says right there in your source you have commented that the immunity zone of Yamato is 21,800 yards to 32,800 yards against 18.1 inch shells but that contradicts what you commented earlier you said that the immunity zone of Yamato was 11,000 yards
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  11. And my bet is on Aircraft and Aircraft Carriers
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  12. ???, Yamato was sunk by an air attack
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