Battleship Vanguard Armor

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The postwar US technical mission to Japan was of the opinion that a Yamato class battleship would sink if hit by four torpedoes on the same side of the ship. Obviously it would take longer to sink than Shinano, but I believe the issue is loss of stability due to inability to rapidly counter flood the opposite side of the ship.

[alecsandros]

The postwar US technical mission to Japan was of the opinion that a Yamato class battleship would sink if hit by four torpedoes on the same side of the ship. Obviously it would take longer to sink than Shinano, but I believe the issue is loss of stability due to inability to rapidly counter flood the opposite side of the ship.

Very interesting! I dind't knew that...
But I think their findings had much to do with the more powerfull torpedoes explosive charges used by the US Navy... (warhead 200kg Torpex)

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The postwar US technical mission to Japan was of the opinion that ....

OT for this thread but most of these reports are on line and very interesting reading. Here's a link to one site with them:
http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_ ... MJ_toc.htm

I hate to think how much ammo I just gave Karl .....

[tommy303]

he postwar US technical mission to Japan was of the opinion that a Yamato class battleship would sink if hit by four torpedoes on the same side of the ship.

I believe they were talking about four simultaneous torpedo hits evenly spaced within the citadel. The USN calculated that five or six similar torpedo hits would overwhelm the counterflooding and liquid transfer capacity of an Iowa class battleship and lead to capsizing and sinking of the ship.

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he postwar US technical mission to Japan was of the opinion that a Yamato class battleship would sink if hit by four torpedoes on the same side of the ship.

I believe they were talking about four simultaneous torpedo hits evenly spaced within the citadel. The USN calculated that five or six similar torpedo hits would overwhelm the counterflooding and liquid transfer capacity of an Iowa class battleship and lead to capsizing and sinking of the ship.

Yes, of course.