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Originally Posted by poprox101
Thanks for the statistics, skunk works. I find it's interesting that many of the failures didn't come from just plain ol' missing!
Scenario: Now what would it take if we take a moving battleship (Let's say the Yamato), and sent nothing but dive bombers at it. What would it take to disable that thing?
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Japanese Navy Ships--Yamato (Battleship, 1941-1945)
"In all, Yamato was struck by some ten torpedoes, mainly on the port side,
and several bombs."
THE BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF - Summary
"The carrier air groups concentrated on the enormous battleship Musashi. A succession of torpedo hits slowed her down and she fell behind Kurita's formation, but the attacks continued relentlessly and at 1935 she capsized and sank, having been hit by at least 10 bombs and the remarkable total of 19 torpedoes." (I have seen sources list up to 17 bomb hits)
Considering that the Helldivers used in these attacks carried 1,000 lbs of bombs, it could probably be done with bombs.
But it probably would take a lot of them, barring a lucky hit ala the Arizona's fate.
tom