Bismark: The Final Countdown

[jimmy olsen]

Instead of the USS Nimitz being thrown through time to Pearl Harbor in 1941 the time storm sends the Bismark to the battle of Jutland. How much damage could the Bismark do to the Royal Navy? Assume the time storm doesn't return to send it back to the future.

[CountDeMoney]

Biplanes killed the fucker in WW2, they would in WW1.

End of theory.  Retarded thread closed.

[Neil]

Locking a thread about dreadnoughts?  Your ass must be crazy.

[jimmy olsen]

Locking a thread about dreadnoughts?  Your ass must be crazy.

Biplanes killed the fucker in WW2, they would in WW1.

End of theory.  Retarded thread closed.

The Royal Navy didn't have any torpedo bombers in 1916.

[Neil]

I'll have an opinion tonight when I get home.

[Barrister]

Locking a thread about dreadnoughts?  Your ass must be crazy.

[crazy canuck]

Mod Fight!

[starbright]

Rehashing countless internet boards:

Not enough to make a real difference. Going with the battleships it is still outnumbered. Going with the battlecruisers would be more fruitful, but does not change the outcome.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

for some reason I was thinking timmy meant to send the Iron Chancellor through time....

[PDH]

The thread needs pictures of nearly naked women.

Or pancakes.

[Admiral Yi]

Surely the Bismarck had greater speed and range than any ship present?  Bismarck stays just out of range and picks off the British fleet one by one.

[Ed Anger]

[grumbler]

Surely the Bismarck had greater speed and range than any ship present?  Bismarck stays just out of range and picks off the British fleet one by one.

Plus radar and spotter planes.  And shells that were significantly better than those available in 1916.

I don't see the Brits laying a glove on Bismarck.  The only issue is ammo supply.

[Tonitrus]

Surely the Bismarck had greater speed and range than any ship present?  Bismarck stays just out of range and picks off the British fleet one by one.

Plus radar and spotter planes.  And shells that were significantly better than those available in 1916.

I don't see the Brits laying a glove on Bismarck.  The only issue is ammo supply.

That'd be the same problem with the Nimitz...sure the F-14s could splash Zero's at will, but when they run out of missiles and ammo, they're just glorified recon planes.

Though it would probably be quite simple for 1941 U.S.A. to replicate the cannon ammo on the F-14s, the missiles would take a bit more work.

That, and the disparity with this analogy....the U.S.A. won anyway, Nimitz or no.   

[grumbler]

That'd be the same problem with the Nimitz...sure the F-14s could splash Zero's at will, but when they run out of missiles and ammo, they're just glorified recon planes.

Though it would probably be quite simple for 1941 U.S.A. to replicate the cannon ammo on the F-14s, the missiles would take a bit more work.

That, and the disparity with this analogy....the U.S.A. won anyway, Nimitz or no.   

The Nimitz air group would run out of jet fuel before running out of 20mm (that's what the phalaxes used as well, and the carrier had an essentially infinite supply).

The Bismarck, though, has a finite number of 15" shells - around 200 salvos' worth.  Once that's gone, she is done.