At the end of World War II, Japan was powerless, so why did it let the flagship Yamato go to death

Battleships in World War II were not completely useless, but depended on how they were used. In the early stages of World War II, battleships were still almost invincible in people's minds, and it was not until after Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Malaya, and the Battle of Midway that people gradually realized that battleships could not be used without air supremacy.

So after that, the battleship became a support ship to cooperate with the aircraft carrier formation and withdrew from the position of the supremacy at sea. However, the battleship relied on its own powerful artillery fire, which still played a significant role in the battle.

Japan built the Yamato-class battleships before the outbreak of the Pacific War because of its super fascination with the theory of big ships and giant guns. The main naval leaders in Japan simply did not realize that the main position of battleships was about to be replaced by aircraft carriers. Before the construction of the Yamato-class battleships, there was also strong opposition in Japan, and that was the naval officers who believed in the decisive theory of aviation.

They firmly believe that in the future, naval warfare, especially ocean-going operations, will rely heavily on air supremacy, and battleships will no longer play a major role. However, these people are small in number and have low ranks, and no amount of opposition will help.

It was not until Japan was at a disadvantage in the Pacific War that the leaders of the Tokyo base camp finally recognized the important role of aircraft carriers and aircraft in naval warfare. At this time, the Yamato, which was built at a huge cost, was already a chicken rib. The Japanese were rigid in their thinking, ignored and suppressed the opinions of their subordinates, and finally allowed themselves to suffer bitter fruits that were difficult to swallow.

Without an airplane, everything is for nothing. It is true that there is a factional struggle in Japan not to build aircraft carriers, but the fundamental reason is that there is no money to build aircraft. Japan produced 10,000 military planes throughout World War II, which seems like a lot, right?

Germany produced 140,000, the USSR 150,000, the United Kingdom 170,000, and the United States 320,000. The United States has launched more than 80,000 aircraft in 43 years and 1 year. So the basis for dumplings under American aircraft carriers.

Looking at the losses, Japan basically lost 500 planes per month in the early and middle stages of the Pacific War, and by the beginning of 44, it basically started at 2,000 planes, and Japan's monthly production was more than 2,200 at its peak. By the middle of 45, Japan could only produce 8 aircraft a month.

Japan's aluminum resources are extremely scarce, and in the 30s, the problem was that 1 Yamato could indeed build several aircraft carriers, but Japan's aircraft production was simply not enough to arm aircraft carriers, even if there were only more than 20 aircraft carriers, in fact, they had already squeezed the aircraft production capacity to the limit. But in contrast to aluminum, there is a surprisingly large amount of steel in Japan. From the perspective of resource utilization, Japan can even build three Yamato ships at the same time, and then another three.

It's just that Japan doesn't have a surplus slipway that can produce Yamato. In this context, you say that you build aircraft carriers or battleships.

The largest Japanese battleship in history, the Yamato, was sunk in the Battle of the Splitter?

a.Battle of Midway.

b.Battle of Okinawa.

c.The good naval battle of the Aboukir Wang.

Correct answer: B

Whether it is developed from the naval technology or naval strategy of the Empire of Japan, the construction of Yamato-class battleships is a historical necessity, even if the battleships are not built, Shizuo Fukui mentioned in his post-war memoirs that it is estimated that the suspension of the construction of the Yamato-class can get five more Wyvern aircraft carriers at Midway, the East Solomon of Kuah Island can get two more Wyvern aircraft carriers, and the aircraft carrier can get more than ten Yunlong aircraft carriers during the decisive battle, but even if the construction of the Yamato-class is stopped, the Imperial Navy cannot sink many American aircraft carriers, Because there is no way to get together the crew at all, and there will be factions within the navy in any era, and the Imperial Navy at that time was also divided into two factions, the battleship faction and the aircraft carrier faction, as you can see, the battleship faction prevailed in the early days of the Imperial Navy, so the empire's own brain is sometimes confused.

If the empire always uses 7:10 as the starting point.

Well in addition to making your 7 bigger.

What is more important is not to make the US 10 bigger.

The Empire can do a little bit to make 7 into 10

But in no positive way.

On the contrary, His Majesty's various measures have prompted the United States to move toward 50 Japan, Japan, and Russia under the right conditions.

are all compared with second-rate powers.

The strength of the Royal Navy that can be sustained in Asia.

It's also second-rate. But obviously.

The Empire had only a little material basis for a full-scale war with the United States, and that foundation was still after Midway.

Almost complete losses.

And it cannot be said that battleships were useless in World War II, the Bismarck is an example, and, if properly commanded, the Yamato-class battleships would not have been ineffective, for the only reason that the empire had angered the lion of the United States.

At that time, the mainstream idea was still the decisive battle of large ships and huge guns, and Japan actually did not really realize that aircraft carriers were the protagonists of naval battles until the Battle of Midway in 1942.

On April 6, 1945, 10** ships of the 2nd Fleet (1 cruiser and 8 destroyers) under the command of Vice Admiral Junichi Ito set sail from the Tokuyama anchorage in the western Seto Inland Sea. In the early morning of 7 April, a U.S. submarine spotted the fleet in the waters southwest of the island of Kyushu. At 12:31, the first attack wave sent by the US Navy, American aircraft concentrated on the port side of the "Yamato", and 4 bombs fell near the No. 3 main turret of the "Yamato", of which 2 225 kg bombs penetrated the rear main deck**, blowing up the 155-mm secondary gun and the reserve fire command post in the rear of the battleship.

At 12:43 hours, the front part of the port side of the Yamato was hit by 1 torpedo, and the speed of the "Yamato" dropped to 22 knots. At 13:35, the second attack wave plane of the US military arrived. At 13:37, the "Yamato" was hit by three torpedoes in the middle of the port side of the hull (each hitting the ribs), causing the hull to tilt to the left by 7-8 degrees.

Almost at the same time, because a 450-kilogram aerial bomb dropped by a US plane blew up the "Yamato" drain valve, making it impossible for the ship to carry out displacement operations, the captain ordered a symmetrical injection of water into the starboard compartment to restore the balance of the hull, and the speed was reduced to 18 knots. At 13:44, the port side was hit by 2 more torpedoes, increasing the left roll to 15-16 degrees, which made the ship's large-caliber anti-aircraft guns unusable. At 14:01, three aerial bombs of the US plane hit the middle of the port side.

At 14:07, a torpedo also hit the rib of the ship No. 150 on the starboard side. At 14:12, the middle and aft parts of the port side of the Yamato were hit by two more torpedoes, and the hull tilted up to 16-18 degrees. Since the starboard injection drain area was already filled with water, it was necessary to continue to fill the machinery room, rest room and boiler room.

At 14:15, the port side of the Yamato hit another thunder, and the speed gradually decreased to 7 knots. The captain was forced to issue an order to abandon the ship. At 14:23, the Yamato ship suddenly had a large main gun ammunition depot **, buried at the bottom of the sea, the whole ship's 2,498 officers and men (together with the headquarters of a total of 2,767 people) only 269 people were rescued (another 7 headquarters personnel rescued), its sinking site in Japan Kyushu Island south of 50 nautical miles, Tokunoshima northwest of 200 nautical miles, east longitude 128 degrees 04 minutes, north latitude 30 degrees 43 minutes.

In the past, it was rare for Japan to be defeated quickly, and when he went to the last dinner of the banquet, he was beaten to death by a group of US planes.

Sunk by naval aviation of the Americans.

Besieged by several U.S. aircraft carrier fleets and hundreds of aircraft, it was heavily damaged and eventually sank. It's all the credit of the aircraft carriers, and if there were no aircraft carriers, the battleships would not have been eliminated.

The sinking of Japan's strongest battleship, the Yamato.

In the early days, aircraft carriers were mostly multi-deck because of overtime length and other reasons, the first deck was generally used for aircraft landing, the second deck was generally the take-off deck, and some aircraft carriers were three-layer structures (the early Akagi), which had many shortcomings, such as the bridge could not be arranged above the first deck, unable to take off and land large aircraft, the upper deck structure was insufficient, and the center of gravity of the whole ship was unstable.

This was the case with the early aircraft carriers of many countries, such as the British Fury.

The layout of the closed hangar is different according to the actual needs of different countries, such as the British Navy often fights in the North Sea with poor sea conditions, so the closed hangar is mostly used, which has the advantages of good seaworthiness, and the disadvantages are difficult to deal with when damaged, and the combustible gas accumulated in the hangar is difficult to discharge. Most of the aircraft carriers of the United States and Japan use unenclosed hangars, and the damaged aircraft in the hangars can be pushed directly into the sea.

1 originated in the West, and Z stands for good luck, victory, and justice. During Columbus's second voyage to the west, he pooled funds at his own expense to buy ships for his expeditions. When he set sail, his ship flew the Z-flag.

The "Z" flag is the wartime mobilization flag of the Japanese Navy, and its meaning is "The rise and fall of the imperial state, in this move, I hope that all officers and men will work hard." ”

2 What you said about the suspended deck is true, and the United States also has many such designs, the reason is very simple, it is time-consuming and laborious to build and design a brand new aircraft carrier in wartime, and Japan and the United States will convert some cruisers and destroyers into aircraft carriers in order to cope with the increasingly tense war, and build a flight deck on the deck, of course, it is small, and these aircraft carriers are similar to regular aircraft carriers except for the relatively narrow hull.

They were put up improvised.

It's okay to do it now, and it's okay now, and the aircraft carrier is not difficult.

It's just that many people take simple questions as difficult.

The second question is that aircraft carriers were indeed like this during World War II, in fact, many aircraft carriers were converted from cruiser battleships, that is, the flight deck was supported on the hull, with a hangar in the middle. Only a certain class of aircraft carriers in the United States adopts a closed bow, which is only the bow, and other parts are also open. The main reason is that this is more weight-saving and simple in structure.

However, the ability to resist wind and waves is relatively poor.

Heihachiro Togo raised the Z-shaped flag for the first time before the Battle of Tsushima, and the flag slogan was "The rise and fall of the imperial kingdom, in this move, I hope that all the soldiers will work hard." "Z is the last letter of the English alphabet, which means that there is no way back.

The first conversion of the cruiser Akagi and the battleship Kaga into aircraft carriers was quite different from that of modern aircraft carriers, because there was no such thing as "what an aircraft carrier should look like" at that time. Originally, Akagi and Kaga had three decks, the top deck for landing, the middle deck for planes to take off, and the lower deck for the main guns (cannon giant ship doctrine), but it turned out that the three decks were not practical, so the top deck was extended forward, and the bottom was erected with shelves, and it became the appearance of a modern aircraft carrier.

The first question: look at the picture.

The second: At that time, aircraft carriers had just appeared, and all aspects were being explored. So the shape is a bit weird.

The Chicheng uses an open hangar, which can carry more than one aircraft. There is also Chicheng is modified on the basis of battleships, and some are based on battleships. So it's added on top of the battleship, so it looks fatter.

One, yes, it was the flag raised by the Japanese Navy when it entered the war, which boosted morale, and as for the origin, it is not very clear.

Second, at that time, Japan's aircraft carrier deck was made of wood, and the technology of aircraft carriers at that time naturally could not be compared with now, and other countries were not very clear, not all Japanese aircraft carriers were of this structure, and the "Chicheng" and "Kaga" were like this, because they were not originally prepared to be made into aircraft carriers, but giant battleships, and later because of the naval arms race with the United States before the outbreak of the Great War, they were temporarily converted into aircraft carriers and had flight decks on them, while the two most advanced aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy at that time in the early days of the Great War were"Xianghe" and "Zuihe", they could not see this structure, but it was not completely enclosed, because of the technical conditions of aircraft carrier construction at that time.