Battleship Bismarck - technical details - original YouTube documentary

Описание: #bismarck #battleship #navalhistory
Welcome to the Codex Militaria channel, english version of an established Croatian Youtube channel! My name is Matija, and today we will be talking about the battleship Bismarck.

Bismarck was a German battleship of the Second World War that almost everyone has heard of. The legend surrounding her was created on the basis of her fascinating first and only operation in the Atlantic. However, alongside such a well-known and important battleship there are also numerous stories and controversies, as well as various explanations for the problems that led to her defeat. Was Bismarck the most powerful battleship ever built in Europe, or was she from the outset an outdated and unsuccessful design? Was her sinking the result of sheer luck, or did she never truly stand a chance against the Royal Navy?

In this series of videos I will attempt to answer these and many other questions. We will look at the overall strategic picture and how Germany even came to build such a battleship in the first place. We will analyze all of her technical characteristics: her armor, armament, machinery, and everything else. All of these characteristics will be compared with battleships of that era, like North Carolina, King George V, Richelieu, Nelson, Littorio, Hood and others. Finally, in the following video I will go through the entire Operation Rheinübung in detail, which for Bismarck represented both her baptism of fire and her fiery end.

Original Croatian channel:    / @codexmilitaria1  

0:00 Intro, how Bismarck came to be, main characteristics
10:30 Main armament
27:38 Secondary and other armament
37:38 Fire control and sensors
45:44 Armor
1:16:52 Propulsion and other features

Sources:
Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II
Battleships: Allied Battleships in World War II
Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander: Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship
Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander: Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship
Iain Ballantyne: Bismarck, 24 Hours to Doom
Angus Konstam: Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship
William L. Shirer: The Sinking of the Bismarck
Jack Brower: The Battleship Bismark: Anatomy of the Ship
Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Battleships of the Bismarck Class

Internet, photo and video:
www.KBismarck.com
www.naval-encyclopedia.com
www.navweaps.com
www.combinedfleet.com
www.navygeneralboard.com
www.hmshood.org.uk
www.wikipedia.org
www.youtube.comBundesarchiv, via Wikimedia Commons
www.warships.com.pl, Sławomir J. Lipiecki
Alexpl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons