Talk:Iowa/@comment-180.254.107.246-20160229044542/@comment-21356142-20160303054052

^ Yeah I dont think you know what your talking about there buddy.

For one, the Bismarck was a ship designed for a past era with an extremely vulnerable rudder such that both of her rudders were damaged by the explosion, with one permanently jammed.

Two, you do realise that the 280 aircraft that attacked the Yamato came from 11 seperate US carriers? Carriers cant launch their entire loadout all at once there. This was also the first wave, there was a total of 4 waves meaning a grand total of 920 aircraft sorties over the course of four hours. Add in the fact that the Enterprises Torpedo bomber squadron was at 18 planes, things are looking mitey dicey there

Three, the Yamato was actually one of the most manoeuvrable warships of its time, beating out even many destroyers in tactical radius. Of course being attacked by hundreds of experienced aircraft this means very little. Against the thirty-some bombers the Enterprise is capable of launching in a wave, she is quite capable of evading attacks. The Enterprise herself dodging several waves of incoming torpedo bombers at Santa Cruz and she handles like a brick.

Your damage estimations are all over the place so I won't even bother as the likelyhood of three waves of 6 torpedo bomber squadrons causing catastrophic damage to either Yamato in a timeframe where the damage can be taken advantage of before the battleships withdraw is frankly infinitesimal.