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青い瞳の鬼畜艦
敵艦隊に単艦突入して大暴れといえば夕立さんや綾波さんが有名ですが
バカはアメリカにもいます。
サマール沖海戦で、日本の決戦艦隊とも言える栗田艦隊と遭遇したタフィ3は圧倒的な戦力差を前に護衛駆逐艦に対して空母の護衛を命じました。
しかし彼女は単艦敵陣に飛び込むと、スコールと煙幕を利用して大暴れを始めます。
鳥海に標的を定めてその懐に飛び込むと、至近距離からありったけの砲弾をその艦橋に向けて浴びせました。更に羽黒・利根・筑摩あたりにも攻撃を行い、魚雷を命中させた(っぽい)他に、筑摩の砲塔を破壊しました(っぽい)。
最後には金剛の砲撃によって行動を停止させられ、17駆逐隊の集中砲火によって海中に沈んでいきました。
ていうかね、夕立や綾波はそれなりに水上戦闘能力があったからまだ分かるけど、コイツ5インチ単装砲2基と3連装魚雷管1基だけですからね。護衛駆逐艦のやる事じゃないですホント。
The Blue-Eyed Brute Ship
When speaking of ships that charge into enemy formations alone and go absolutely berserk, first to mind are the likes of Yuudachi or Ayanami...
...But such fools exist in America as well.
In the Battle off Samar, as part the American fleet group known as Taffy 3, a single destroyer escort guarding a carrier encountered overwhelming odds and naval power in the form of the Kurita Fleet - known as the Decisive Battle Fleet.
Yet, this solitary destroyer escort charged headlong into the formation of her enemy's fleet, using smokescreens and rain squalls as cover to run wild.
She targeted Choukai and, plunging right into the thick of things, rained every shell she had at hand onto Choukai's bridge. Furthermore, she also attacked Haguro, Tone, and Chikuma, and - if the stories are to be believed - scored a torpedo hit against Chikuma, destroying one of her gun turrets.
It took a bombardment from Kongou to halt her rampage, and only under the combined firepower of the 17th Destroyer Division was she sunk beneath the ocean.
Really, Yuudachi and Ayanami have plenty of strength as surface combatants, but all this girl had was a pair of 5-inch single-turret guns and one triple torpedo launcher. Her performance was totally above her weight class as a mere destroyer escort, huh? For real.
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