Bismarck Vs Swordfish Meme

In this video the reasons for the ineffectiveness of battleship bismarck s anti aircraft defenses are examined.

Bismarck vs swordfish meme. Atlantic fleet dkm hutten and bismarck vs hms lion and uss north carolina duration. Post feb 11 2007 1 2007 02 11t04 08. I always thought it just did not have enough. Accompanying the home fleet was the brand new aircraft carrier hms victorious with 825 naval air squadron embarked under the command of lcdr eugene esmond. Why didn t the bismarck shoot down any swordfish. The squadron like many in the fleet air arm was equipped with fairy swordfish torpedo bombers. That was all in terms of installed anti aircraft artillery.

The most powerful battleship yet built was among the victims. Epiic soniickzz 60 671 views. Much has been made of the bismark s inability to defend itself against the british swordfish torpedo planes. There have been various attempts to explain this. Virgin bismarck vs chad swordfish. The fairey swordfish biplane appeared obsolete but scored many notable torpedo hits during the war. Yet she had successfully shaken off the royal navy ships that had been tracking her on radar and was making for the french port of brest for repairs.

That was all in terms of installed anti aircraft artillery. The squadron had seen action aboard other carriers in the north atlantic the norway. Look how sad he is. The bismarck was struck critically by an attack of 15 swordfish bi plane bombers yet wasn t able to shoot a single one down. What i wanted to point out is that the systems on board bismarck were not unable to follow the torp bombers if that were so the tirpitz wouldn t have been able to shoot down 2 albacores. Posted by u deleted 6 days ago. Meaning that the germans.

Posted by 2 days ago. How was this possible considering that the bismarck was the most. The swordfish s slow speed was below that designed into the german s aa fire control. Two popular explanations have been. By definition the crippling the swordfish did not sink the bismarck they crippled it of the bismarck by swordfish torpedo planes shows that the swordfish was not obsolete could no longer do its job. Rather the swordfish was obsolescent it could do its job but other aircraft could do the job better. Tirpitz had 8 more 20mm guns 28 vs 20 on bismarck.

Posted by 1 day ago. View entire discussion 111 comments more posts from the historymemes community. Bismarck photographed from a swordfish from 825 squadron.