Building the biggest and heavily armed and armored dreadnought of the second world war, when technology pushed to using planes as a form of combat, led it to being nearly useless
Well also the admiralty was paranoid about it being sunk so it basically never left the Japanese home islands. Personally I think the Bismarck is a better comparison, especially since it was more or less taken out by a swordfish an aging plane design with way too many names taken.
And the Yamato battleship of the Japanese empire.
Building the biggest and heavily armed and armored dreadnought of the second world war, when technology pushed to using planes as a form of combat, led it to being nearly useless
Well also the admiralty was paranoid about it being sunk so it basically never left the Japanese home islands. Personally I think the Bismarck is a better comparison, especially since it was more or less taken out by a swordfish an aging plane design with way too many names taken.