While I agree Yamato is going to win this one most of the time.
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...., while Bismark was more suited to a surface raiding role due to her rather small guns 15in. which were totally outclassed by the American 16in/50 rifled gun
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I don't think I'd call 15" small. There were advantages to the German guns. Against earlier 16" rounds they actually look pretty comparable. It's only when you start comparing them to the US "super heavies" and of course Yamato's 18" rounds that they start to look a touch week.
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.... Also Yamato would out range the Bismark by several thousand yards, so she could get off several shots before Bismark could even get in range, and if one of those shots hit the Bismark then she would have lit up like a Christmas tree.
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The range of the guns was more or less irrelevant. Neither had a fire control system that would allow them to have a good chance of hitting at over 30,000 yards. There was also a lot of Bismark that wasn't particularly critial area so while an 18" round would hurt it wouldn't necessarily "light" her up.
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... even if she hit the Yamato she could never penatrate the Yamato's turret armor...
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There's a lot more to Yamato than turret armor. It's also possibe for Bismark to peneterate said turret armor. The turret face is theoretically impossible for her to penetrate but even there those calculations often don't include things like multiple hits and edge effects.
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Japanese radar was reliable and duralbe, and withstood shock well beacause it was cruder and lacked as many sensitive advanced parts. Therefore, even if the ship the Yamato somehow was sinking, it could still probally fire because the fire contorl would probably not have been taken (there is also the fact that the fire control was way up on the massive pagoda structure).
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Where did you get the data on the reliability of Japanese radar. I would think, by the way, that being high up in the sturcture would in some ways be more problematic.