Japan nearly crippled the U.S. Pacific fleet by destroying all of the battleships --- well, not all of them. Their main targets were the battleships. They sunk other ships at Pearl Harbor if they could, but eliminating the battleships was the top priority in weakening America's naval power in Asia and the Pacific.
No. The US Navy did not have that many battleships.
Japan had 8 battleships built as such and also 4 fast battleships which had been built as battlecruisers but improved between the wars.
six battleships
Basically, a battleship is typified by large guns, and thick armor since the late 1800's. In World War 1 battleships also carried torpedoes and a variety of smaller guns, but they never got close enough to use them, and these were done away with.
the manufacturing of battleships
merely the use of words to describe the same object..
The Russian battleships during the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 burned coal. The battleships of WWI & WWII burned oil.
All battleships are strong...otherwise they would not be battleships.
Japan nearly crippled the U.S. Pacific fleet by destroying all of the battleships --- well, not all of them. Their main targets were the battleships. They sunk other ships at Pearl Harbor if they could, but eliminating the battleships was the top priority in weakening America's naval power in Asia and the Pacific.
Battleships weigh about 50,000 tons
The collective noun is 'a flotilla of battleships'.
It demonstrated that "Battlecruisers" shouldn't fight battleships...nor be used like battleships. Battleships are for "slugging it out" with other battleships; battlecruisers are for reconniassance, raiding, and killing cruisers.
Who invented the war machines, tanks, battleships, and crossbow?
Two battleships (Yamato and Musashi)
No. The US Navy did not have that many battleships.
Japan had 8 battleships built as such and also 4 fast battleships which had been built as battlecruisers but improved between the wars.