Re: Shinano: what if she hadn't been sunk?

In message <QZSfj.26049$wy2.3550@edtnps90>, Ken Chaddock <chaddock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Sure but consider how difficult Yamato and Musashi were to sink without any aircover.

Consider how difficult Amadou Diallo was to kill. The NYPD had to shoot him 41 times! Just imagine if they'd only shot him forty times: he'd have just walked away unbothered and we'd never have heard of him.

"Difficult to sink" != "difficult to reduce to a floating tomb of no combat value whatsoever". How many hits did it take to take away Yamato / Musashi's ability to fight effectively?.

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The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


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