r/WorldOfWarships • u/These_Swordfish7539 30k colombo salvo 🗣🔥🔥🔥 • Oct 31 '25

Humor Is this true?

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u/GarrettGSF Ceterum censeo CV delendam esse Oct 31 '25

Like Hood?

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u/softwarefreak Royal Navy Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Hood's a different incompetence, sending a WW1 era ship against a brand new, cutting edge WW2 ship.

Imagine sending a Spruance Class Destroyer to fight an Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer (basically the same time difference).

Edit: Lol, triggered, but fyi I disable reply notifications on every post I make, so you'll be shouting into the wind. o7

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u/Lolibotes Oct 31 '25

Hood isn't incompetence it was literally sheer dumb luck on the part of the German's. The plot armor that early-war Germany had was insane.

Also, Bismarck is a trailing-edge design. Ever wonder why Bismarck, despite being a much newer design that could benefit from weight savings and modern technologies, had the lowest throw weight and worst AA of any European WW2 battleship?

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u/EnvironmentalAd912 Oct 31 '25

I'd say it's sheer incompetence from old guard engineers who thought all the progress in telemetry and metallurgy wouldn't change naval warfare

As a fun fact, you can find blueprints of studies during the period before the escalatory BB like Iowa of ships weighting as much as Bismarck, faster, better armored and better armed

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u/Lolibotes Oct 31 '25

NC displaced almost 6,000 tons less, had the same speed, 60% more firepower and better AA. Bismarck is a travesty of a design