Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "IJN Kongo - Guide 174" video.

  1. 11 inch-guns would have done the job for everyone, if they hit decisive and earlier than the enemy. With holes in your hull, your ship is gonna sink. This is the major intention to shoot holes in a hull. The Ricesteamers missed and the cowboys hit. Historically this was caused by the Japanese night actions due to the US air superiority at daylight.
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  2.  @CorePathway  They did at Jutland and the Doggerbank. You ignore the real problems of the Germans in sea-warfare in both WWs, lack of tradition, stupid flag-officers & some overchallenged commanders as Langsdorff, who should had remain with his beloved destroyers. The performance of the Brits hitting Germans even to hit Bismarck in her final engagement was really bad, an underperformance at point blank range targeting a gigantic sitting duck. British shooting became very good with radar steered fire, as You can see in the battle at the NorthCape, 1943. Langsdorff was too stupid to run like Sturdee, when the enemy is closing in or not to sail home, when the radar only reaches 6 seamiles in midwinter, risking the ship like the idiot Bey did it. The German seawarfare-highcommand (SKL) was even too stupid to calculate the correct demand of fuel-supply. Bad British heavy units were the easiest targets to sink them. But there is a need to hit them decisively. The Germans had simply too many Beattys and no real punishment for failure in battle, but worse. The Germans promoted their slackers & suckers, sent the heroes home like Marschall.
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