And let's not forget that a Yamato-class battleship can take quite a lot of punishment. Even a full salvo of torpedoes from Sendai would be like a scratch for Yamato. If Yamato hits Sendai on the other hand....
And let's not forget that a Yamato-class battleship can take quite a lot of punishment. Even a full salvo of torpedoes from Sendai would be like a scratch for Yamato. If Yamato hits Sendai on the other hand....
Musashi can took 19 torpedo and many bombs before sink, Yamato class is very endurable.
Musashi can took 19 torpedo and many bombs before sink, Yamato class is very endurable.
Musashi actually took about half that many hits, and it was probably dead after the first half dozen or so. There's no quick way to tell a ship is foundering though and so some level of overkill was applied. Yahagi for instance probably was hit by half a dozen or so torpedoes and many bombs, but this hardly means that was the minimum needed to sink her. The Yamatos were large, but even the Japanese own estimates where that about half a dozen torpedoes on one side would be fatal.
Yamato was killed by five to seven aerial torpedo impacts along the port side which produce an unrecoverable list that counter-flooding could not control. All other damage was meaningless, it could be entirely removed and the ship still would've capsized and sunk. Maybe even faster then it did since some of the hits to starboard served as a kind of counter-flooding.
