The five most powerful battleships in human history, do you know who is the first?

Of the world's five largest battleships, Japan's Yamato is only ranked second on the list.

Fifth place: North Carolina-class battleship, as the beginning of American fast battleship, North Carolina-class battleship applied many advanced technologies and practices of the US Navy. It can be said that it is one of the battleships with the highest technical content in the last generation of battleships. From the perspective of later generations, this class of battleships definitely has the ability to be called the first-class last-generation battleships.

Fourth place: South Dakota class battleship. The South Dakota class battleship was not very successful, because it was limited by the displacement of the treaty and some innovative new technologies that were not fully tested. However, it is still recognized as an excellent treaty battleship with a balanced offensive and defensive. It played an important role in the Pacific War, and was mostly used as an aircraft carrier escort and fire support on the other side in the war. It was incorporated into the aircraft carrier formation and provided by its powerful air defense firepower network for the fast aircraft carrier task force.

Third place: Bismarck-class battleship. Bismarck-class battleship is the second type battleship developed after Nazi Germany came to power, and it is also the largest two warships built by the German navy in history.

This design requires a standard displacement of 42,000 tons, which exceeds the specifications of the Anglo-German naval agreement and far exceeds the 35,000 tons of the British naval battleship George V. However, in 1940, when Bismarck was in service, its standard displacement reached 4 1700 tons, and its sister ship "Tilpitz" even reached 50,000 tons.

Second place: battleship Yamato. Due to the backwardness of Japan's own anti-aircraft gun design and production, this design can not match the long-range and short-range firepower, and there is no radar-guided air defense firepower network. It can't compete with the standard version of 127 high-level dual-purpose gun of American battleship and a large number of Bofors guns. After the Battle of Midway Island, the "Autumn Moon" class of Japan's first-class special air defense ship B was put into use, and the equally useful "Atlanta" class light patrol in the United States has already become the patron saint of aircraft carriers, and has participated in almost the entire Pacific naval battle. Judging from the design and construction of ships, imperial japanese navy is bound by backward strategic thinking, which has laid the groundwork for his own failure.

First place: Iowa class battleship. In order to meet the challenge of the Soviet navy in the late 1970s, from 198 1 to 1989, US President Ronald Reagan put forward the plan of "600 ships navy" to expand the navy on a large scale. With his support, four "Iowa" class ships resumed active service after large-scale modernization. It took seven and a half years from New Jersey 198 10 to February when the last Wisconsin 1989 was refitted, and the refitting cost of each ship was about 300-400 million dollars. The focus of this modification is to strengthen the ground-to-ship attack capability, enhance the anti-submarine air defense capability, improve the modernization level of communication and electronic equipment, and improve the living conditions of the crew.