Tone down the AA buff

[Sharana]

2+2=6?

his own carrier joined the hunt

[Deamon93]

For the Bismarck the slow speed of this Swordfish torpedo planes was a disadvantage as their flak was adjusted to hit faster planes.^^

The didn't shot down a single plane because their flak can't simply hit this to slow planes! ( Statement of a surviving flak men )

 

All the flak simply shot to far ahead so the planes didn't get hurt, the flak of the Bismarck would have wiped out these nasty planes when it would be adjusted for this (non)speed.

 

 

 

For the Bismarck the slow speed of this Swordfish torpedo planes was a disadvantage as their flak was adjusted to hit faster planes.^^

The didn't shot down a single plane because their flak can't simply hit this to slow planes! ( Statement of a surviving flak men )

 

All the flak simply shot to far ahead so the planes didn't get hurt, the flak of the Bismarck would have wiped out these nasty planes when it would be adjusted for this (non)speed.

 

 

Bismarck had crazy bad AA:

-Mixed 105 mm mounts: there were two different mounts with two different rotation speeds, making a lot of guns useless(since the FCS was set to plot for one of the two mounts). This got fixed on Tirpitz

-Crazy bad 37 mm guns: Germany used crazy bad 37 mm guns until the 37/69 showed up, too late to change something though

-The amount of 20 mm guns was small: considering the crap Bismarck had as heavy and medium AA you would expect something beefy to stop or dissuade planes from attacking you but the amount of AA was just bad(12 guns as constructed and Bismarck lived to see some more added but not much). With Tirpitz the number grew up to a reasonable number but considering she was a target practice for RN and RAF pilots she had to be a tougher nut to crack...until Lancasters with Tallboy came along

 

 

[chamorro]

For the Bismarck the slow speed of this Swordfish torpedo planes was a disadvantage as their flak was adjusted to hit faster planes.^^

The didn't shot down a single plane because their flak can't simply hit this to slow planes! ( Statement of a surviving flak men )

 

All the flak simply shot to far ahead so the planes didn't get hurt, the flak of the Bismarck would have wiped out these nasty planes when it would be adjusted for this (non)speed.

 

 

 

apart from what Deamon said above (which is 100% correct), the problem Bismarck had with the Swordfishes wasn't that they were going too slow (WTF?? the 127/50 had a much faster training speed than the 105mm  on the Bismarck and they could track slow tragets even more easily, same goes for the Oerlikons and the Bofors... Doesn't make ANY sense that a gun that has a high tracking cannot track a slow target... )

The problem with the attack on Bismarck is that the Biplanes were flying too LOW (not slow) for the AA to achieve an effective firing solution on them