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26-inch thick armor from Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.
Apr 4, 2018 6:34 AM
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26-inch thick armor from Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.
skttlebrau
Wow
AJerkyMcJerkface
My DICK penetrated the hull of a Yamato class battle ship during WWII
XPapaLegbaX
alRakoun
Really? I thought that's what Sean Connery did to your mother last night, Trebek. HAH! SUCK IT!
NorseNanuq
Physics do not f$!k around.
tartpop
bad title is bad.
NyQuilDaydream
But can it keel?
SoDoneWithYourShite
Op shells, pls nerf.
bigdaddyfatpants
bigdaddyfatpants
PEW PEW
RoxanneLaWin
“You know your battle ship we fucked up? Can we have it and put it on display and probably have some sort of flag parade every day?”
Kmac44
Cirivello
spaghettiThunderbolt
Don't apologize for using weapons in warfare.
Vatafeo
Its a good thing everyone was wearing their helmets and no one got hurt
thebigmanc
bleblebla
TuggSpeedmann
Imagine the deafening noise that would have made
nimroPandaTerror
Wam slam now lets all invade japan
thefuckinpikey
WAT
cheeseguy3412
"SPLORNK!" - That shell, probably not.
thenipplebandit
Pew pew pew.
AfterTimeAdrift
WHAT? SPEAK UP!
FlyingButtPliers
*Tink!
Koshunae
If you were anywhere near it when it happened, you died. If you managed to not die, you may have heard a noise similar to a lightning strike
Koshunae
A quick and piercing shriek, and that was probably the last thing you ever heard. From a distance, a percussive thud.
dragonraven13
But are the Japanese okay?
Rhabdo79
'Merica
llcoolj
Markodgt
Imagine what that shell did to human meat
AzgarOgly
On direct hit? Pretty much turned into pink slime. Even 6" shell close hit would do that.
Munchman347
The sailors inside would have been safe if they had some of those TV show wooden boxes to hide behind, those things stop everything!...
akaBruce
somehow we still have trouble killing giant flesh monsters in movies xd
Braethias
They aren't made of 26 inches thick steel armor, duh
calivalley
We had a 16 inch salvo from the Iowa in my NSFS class at NAB Coronado. 2100 lbs
FrankPerkele
Result of a controlled ballistic test, still very impressive.
TheModsHaveInstatedShariaLaw
Your mom is the result of a controlled ballistic test.
FrankPerkele
Most likely yes, so is yours. Basically all of ours.
zenoshogun
"controlled ballistic test" is that what we are calling WW2 now?
FrankPerkele
Well, ScootyPuffSr gave you a good answer already
ScootyPuffSr
A plate that would have been built onto the third Yamato, IJN Shinano, was taken home postwar and USNavy did tests Oct '46.
ScootyPuffSr
The battleship armor plate wasn't on Shinano when she sank (1944) because half way through building they turned her into an aircraft carrier
DongFeng
Yamato was sunk by torpedo and dive bombers not naval gunfire.
bigdaddyfatpants
bigdaddyfatpants
PEW PEW PEW
AzgarOgly
It's more like KABOOoommmmzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ
dennisprager
the yamato was and still is the largest battle ship ever constructed its armor was almost unbreakable it went down in a blaze of glory...
dennisprager
when its powder magazine exploded it was a legit mushroom cloud it could not fire more than one of its large guns at once or it capzied
BenGoodal
It had massive flaws in its armour design and operation. Bushido code meant the captain went into battle without ballistic shutters up.
dennisprager
the problem seems to be in the use of the ballistic shutters not the shutters themselves the armor was some of the thickest in WW2 1/2
dennisprager
its only weaknesses was its poor anti aircraft guns its slightly slower speed and
dennisprager
its lack of sonar it was a very good ship but only in the right hands the Japanese wasted it instead returning to japan for protection.
BenGoodal
Her torpedo belt was attached in a fashion that meant it ripped holes in her hull rather than protect her.
datMaggie
But how do you penetrate 26 inches with only 16 inches of tool available?
datMaggie
To everybody jumping on me, I was making a (clearly bad) dick pun.
TotallyNotDitto
Those 16 inch rounds haul ass.
SloQuattro
Ballistics Physics and Science, Yo
ilhares
Momentum.
JesseSlayer
16 inches is the diameter of the shell. the actual shell is much longer, weighs nearly 2000 pounds, and has a LOT of powder behind it.
TheWarHymn
700 pounds of cordite if I recall.
Piornet
Force = mass * velocity.
spaghettiThunderbolt
Force = ½mass • velocity². Ftfy.
Piornet
GunFighter3
I laughed way to hard at this.
ilikehornets
Ackhually, you are both wrong, force = mass*acceleration, momentum = mass*velocity and energy = 1/2*mass*velocity^2
KingoftheFreds
*My extremely xenophobic grandpa* "AND THAT'S WHY WE DON'T BUY JAPANESE STEEL!!!"
omh2
Semi relevant, that penetration was from a ballistics test at 90°, were it on the actual ship it would have been impervious to naval guns
TheWarHymn
Which is why they targeted the thinner deck armour with high trajectory shells and aerial bombs.
JohnnyGossamer
No, it wouldn't have been.
omh2
I'd except that 'impervious' may be a stretch, but there was no period naval gun that could penetrate the plate at its installed angle
omh2
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-040.php
JohnnyGossamer
That's all well and good, but it should be noted this 26" armor was only on the turret faces. The main belt armor was 16".
justbelowme
Hattori hanzo steel? Masamune steel?
Caphalor
That's still shite steel compared to European
galspanic
Pretty sure most men get over the whole katana thing by the time they hit 20. 20 is too young to be a grandfather.
MyPseudoIsAlduinSkyrimStoleItFromMe
39, still not over it... maybe it's cuz a practice a sport that uses Japanese sword.