Talk:Bismarck/@comment-125.212.50.98-20140331130113/@comment-87.145.114.148-20140401103617

>On the contrary Bismark had the moist advanced AA fitted on any Battleship in her time period.

No. Just no. Bismarck had good optics but poor radar FC (or lack thereof, seeing as how there was absolutely no blind-fire capability at her long radar wavelength) and an outdated armor design. She was fast, durable and an acceptable battleship overall, but other battleships were far superior (not Japanese ones though; Nagato was outdated and Yamato inefficient and with poor FC). Compared to the other battleships here in Kancolle her AA was definitely not worse either seeing as how the 25mm gun was next to the worst AA gun of the entire war, with only the Italian guns in sad company, though the decision to have a dedicated secondary surface battery can't really be gainsaid.

All in all, the Bismarck class is terribly overrated. Anybody claiming Bismarck had good AA (or FC) compared to Allied ships (instead of just Axis ships) obviously has never looked into analogue fire control computers.