Mowgli1647545497 Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 Originally posted by RX7dood: i've seen plenty fords to that too. Sure you have. The Bismarck was sunk because she was outdated by the time she left port. She was designed for ship to ship combat in the North Atlantic. Her designers anticipated weather and visibility conditions such as had prevailed at Jutland in WWI. As a result, she was optimized for short-range, flat-trajectory combats. 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. But mainly her steel sucked ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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