![]() ![]() American and French battleships were designed to do less with more, with the South Dakota, for instance, being perhaps the best protected warship, pound for pound, ever built. Her armor layout isn't the most efficient, but she has a lot of armor, so it doesn't really matter. As such, hers is a sort of 'brute force' approach to protection. By the same token, Yamato was simply built to stand up to and utterly outclass any conceivable American or British opponent by sheer weight of gunfire, and elephant-like armor. Her armor scheme reflects this, with an armor layout that makes it fantastically difficult to put a shell into her vitals at short range, but which is vulnerable to long-range fire, and which reduces the total amount of protected volume in the vessel by carrying her armor deck lower in the ship than her contemporaries. As a result, she was optimized for short-range, flat-trajectory combats. Her designers anticipated weather and visibility conditions such as had prevailed at Jutland in WWI. Bismarck, for instance, was designed for combat in the North Atlantic. After all, each of these vessels was designed to operate in a different anticipated threat environment than the others. G ENERAL COMMENTS: This was the most complex category in terms of trying to quantify and simplify a rating. Best Battleship: Armor Best Battleship: Armorįace-hardened: average quality.
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