The 14 Most Powerful Battleship Guns of WW2
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For 40 years, a nation's power was measured in one thing — the caliber of the guns bolted to its biggest warship. In this video we climb the entire ladder of WW2 battleship main guns, from an 11-inch rifle that hunted in wolfpacks all the way up to the largest naval guns ever floated: the 18.1-inch monsters of the Yamato.
Some of these guns sank legends. Some never fired at an enemy at all. And the biggest guns in history turned out to be almost useless — for a reason nobody saw coming.
We break down all 14, ranked smallest to largest, covering the real history, the engineering, the shells, the record-breaking long-range hits, and the battles that made each one a legend: Scharnhorst, Bismarck, Warspite, Nelson & Rodney, Iowa, North Carolina, Nagato, Yamato and more.
⚓ Which battleship gun do you think was truly the best — raw size, or accuracy? Drop your pick in the comments.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro: 40 years of chasing a bigger number
00:31 – Scharnhorst's 28cm
01:35 – Gangut's 305mm
02:48 – Dunkerque's 330mm
03:53 – King George V's 14-inch
05:12 – Bismarck's 38cm
06:18 – Warspite's 15-inch
07:29 – Littorio's 381mm
08:39 – Richelieu's 380mm
09:50 – Nelson's 16-inch
11:04 – Colorado's 16-inch
12:04 – North Carolina's 16-inch
13:07 – Iowa's 16-inch
14:13 – Nagato's 41cm
15:23 – Yamato's 46cm
If you enjoyed this, watch our breakdown of the aircraft carriers that made every gun on this list obsolete.
#WW2 #Battleship #NavalHistory #Yamato #Bismarck #WorldWar2 #Warships #MilitaryHistory #Iowa #WW2History
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The 14 Most Powerful Battleship Guns of WW2
Blitzkrieg
3,380 views
For 40 years, a nation's power was measured in one thing — the caliber of the guns bolted to its biggest warship. In this video we climb the entire ladder of WW2 battleship main guns, from an 11-inch rifle that hunted in wolfpacks all the way up to the largest naval guns ever floated: the 18.1-inch monsters of the Yamato.
Some of these guns sank legends. Some never fired at an enemy at all. And the biggest guns in history turned out to be almost useless — for a reason nobody saw coming.
We break down all 14, ranked smallest to largest, covering the real history, the engineering, the shells, the record-breaking long-range hits, and the battles that made each one a legend: Scharnhorst, Bismarck, Warspite, Nelson & Rodney, Iowa, North Carolina, Nagato, Yamato and more.
⚓ Which battleship gun do you think was truly the best — raw size, or accuracy? Drop your pick in the comments.
👍 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE if you love naval history — it genuinely keeps this channel afloat.
CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro: 40 years of chasing a bigger number
00:31 – Scharnhorst's 28cm
01:35 – Gangut's 305mm
02:48 – Dunkerque's 330mm
03:53 – King George V's 14-inch
05:12 – Bismarck's 38cm
06:18 – Warspite's 15-inch
07:29 – Littorio's 381mm
08:39 – Richelieu's 380mm
09:50 – Nelson's 16-inch
11:04 – Colorado's 16-inch
12:04 – North Carolina's 16-inch
13:07 – Iowa's 16-inch
14:13 – Nagato's 41cm
15:23 – Yamato's 46cm
If you enjoyed this, watch our breakdown of the aircraft carriers that made every gun on this list obsolete.
#WW2 #Battleship #NavalHistory #Yamato #Bismarck #WorldWar2 #Warships #MilitaryHistory #Iowa #WW2History