Meet the 'Battlecarrier': The Navy Almost Built a Super Weapon Like No Other

Sinking all the Japanese aircraft carriers was crucial to us winning the Pacific War. There were at least 3 important ramifications. The Japanese navy could not attack ours and could not defend hers. Japanese soldiers on many islands went unsupported because the Japanese navy lost her freedom of maneuver.

I think I have come up with a simple calculus of war. If a country experiences attrition of essential military assets due to the enemy and it is incapable of replacing the assets or replacing them with requisite velocity, there is a good chance it will lose the war.

The complete destruction of all of Japan’s aircraft carriers meant a certain defeat for Japan. Germany could not manufacture enough fuel to keep her armies running. Near the end of the war the British and US air forces wiped out practically all of her seasoned pilots. They had rows of new planes but nobody to fly them. Inexperienced German pilots became easy pickings. We often focus on the kinetic operations but the true picture of war entails production and replacement of critical military assets.

I think I have found a unique and simple way to describe the strategies of some wars. If a country attacks too many countries then there exists a good chance one or more of the countries will curb stomp the aggressor country. It happened to Tojo, Hitler, and Napoleon.

In WWII Russia and the US built 60,000 and 50,000 tanks respectively. Ultimately the Germans were overwhelmed by the massive production of the Allied forces.

As best I can recall from an early-1980s article in "International Defense Review", the missile armament would have been stuffing 184 vertical-launch missile canisters inside the aft gun-turret ring, with a mix of surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.
Also, to be honest, I tuned out the Zumwalt fan-boy bit at the end as blatherings by someone who doesn't appreciate the visceral difference between a 9- (or 6-) round volley of the 1-ton express and precision-guided pinpricks with no more explosive than a mortar round.

Excellent video share 1LT William Clardy