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[edit] Related to H class?

Nazi Germany, ally of Imperial Japan, also planned a giant battleship with 20" guns. Perhaps these two parallel projects from two allied nations were somehow linked?

No, they were definitely not linked. The German battleship you are talking about was the 1944 design of the H Class Battleship, which itself was just an enlarged version of the 1939 H Class design. Two ships of the latter had been laid down early in 1939, but construction was cancelled shortly after the war had broken out. Ulsterman 22:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rephrased comparison of shell weight

The comparison section is very well done, except for a minor bit of phrasing which I corrected. In reality the Iowa class wasn't only the most "powerful" American battleship behind the Yamatos, it was the most "powerful". (I put powerful in quotes because targeting, speed, and armor determine a good battleship too.) Anynobody 09:00, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

dude the yamato out guns the iowa 10x —Preceding unsigned comment added by ANOMALY-117 (talk • contribs)

One thing I'll point out while I'm here is the weight of broadside/rate of fire issue. From List of broadsides of major World War II ships, we can take the Yamato's weight of fire at 28,971 tons, at 1.5 per minute. So, in 2 minutes, Yamato would fire 3 salvoes, totalling 86,373 tons. Iowa has a weight of fire of 24,300 tons, at 2 salvoes per minute. So, in 2 minutes, Iowa would fire 4 salvoes at 97,200 tons, over 10,000 tons greater than Yamato's. Add onto that superior American gunnery control, radar, etc.. Who outguns who now? Parsecboy (talk) 15:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

This is indeed true, except that I think you mean pounds rather than tons? Benea (talk) 17:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, funny how you can get mixed up sometimes :) Parsecboy (talk) 20:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

yo i said out guns like as in nuber of guns including ainti-aircraft,etc the yamato wins in sheer firepower plus 1.5 salvos per minute .. is that possible? can you fire half a salvo or would you quickly load the rest of the guns. but still the japanese were like atoumated machiens arboard their battle ships so it think the yamato could avarege the 2 salvos per minute set by the iwoa plus like howmany years were in between the iwo and yamato i mean the yamto was a god in its time the amiracans feard it and thats why the built the um..iwoa class but the yamato was sunk before the were completed by a massive air attack by three carriers and i think it took like 13 (i am problay wrong about the number) derect hits before it was sunk. could the iwoa take the same amount of punishment and live?--ANOMALY-117 (talk) 17:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC) ha the the yamato took direct hits form more then 10,000 pounds of bombs and keep goin like it was nothin the oly thing that can and did sink the ship is the amircan forsight to use the airplane at see not the battleship not to mention the other two ships in the yamato class although one was scrpped to make an aircrft carrier because the japs finnaly relised that planes not battleships would win the war. --ANOMALY-117 (talk) 18:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC) what about range does the yamato fire father then the iwoa plus the yamato has a bigger beam and more antiaircraft guns and i think the iwo couldn't hold it's own against three aircraft carriers for as long as the yamato did. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ANOMALY-117 (talk • contribs) 18:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Please be aware that the purposes of talkpages are to discuss improvements to the article, and not the place for a general discussion of battleship capabilities. Benea (talk) 18:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)