During World War II, the Japanese Navy claimed to be the world's largest, so why did the United States destroy it in just 4 years?
During World War II, the Japanese Navy, the frog at the bottom of the well, continued to clamor that it was the first in the world, and swept through the main opponents in the Pacific region through rapid attacks. But it was such a self-proclaimed first Japanese navy that was overthrown by the United States in just 4 years. What means did the United States use to eliminate the Japanese Navy in a short period of time?
In fact, there are four reasons why the Japanese Navy will collapse, which is worth noting.
The first reason is that the Japanese navy and army are not in harmony, which seriously affects its military layout. Perhaps no one thought that the biggest obstacle to the Japanese Navy was not the United States, but the Japanese Army. Since Japan is an island nation, it has long been a tradition in Japan to emphasize the navy and despise the army. In this tradition, the Japanese Army is extremely hostile to the Japanese Navy. Therefore, during World War II, the two sides engaged in an internal arms race because of the external war of aggression. As a result, the Army began to develop aircraft carriers, frigates, submarines, and all kinds of fighters that could fly on ships. In order to suppress the army, the navy also began to vigorously develop army weapons, and then the navy appeared what amphibious tanks, self-propelled guns and other weapons and equipment, of course, in order to compare with the 52 models of aircraft developed by the army, the Japanese navy also built 53 aircraft. It is reasonable to say that such a large-scale research and development effort should be a good thing for Japan to enhance its national strength, but on the contrary, the navy and the army do not look at each other, so they also keep secrets from each other in terms of technology. This means that in order to fight, the two sides have developed a number of weapons that they cannot use. This senseless waste of armaments dragged down the Pace of the Japanese Navy in the later stages of the war, and added some pressure to the japanese Navy's downfall.
The second reason is the rigidity of japanese naval tactics. In the entire Pacific War, the Japanese Navy's best tactic was death-to-death combat, that is, to attack the enemy at all costs, and the losses caused to the enemy could not be calculated, but they must fight out of style and fight out of the temper of imperialism. Therefore, in wartime, Japan lost 127 submarines in exchange for sinking 179 ships and damaging 49 ships. This tactic, in the old chinese saying, that is, wounding the enemy by one thousand and losing eight hundred is an absolute next strategy. Of course, in addition to the death battle, the Japanese Navy was also seriously addicted to backward tactics. In World War I, although the German army was defeated, the appearance of its submarine fleet made the world see the importance of submarine weapons. Therefore, the Japanese followed suit and insisted on using submarines to play assault. But in fact, due to the behavior of the German army, the countries with more developed navies in the world at that time were already constantly developing anti-submarine technology. Therefore, Japan's tricks are naturally not enough to see in front of the United States. More importantly, due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Navy's battleships were almost completely destroyed, resulting in the US military adjusting the combat plan and establishing an aircraft carrier-centered combat formation. Therefore, in the face of new tactics, the old tactics that the Japanese Navy values are bound to be insufficient to see, and they are bound to be eliminated.
What has gradually put the Japanese Navy on the road to collapse is another problem, that is, technological development. After World War II, Japan poured its national strength into the war and left scientific research behind. The United States, on the other hand, was still using a lot of money to develop nuclear weapons during the Pacific War. It can be said that wartime Japan has had obvious differences in technology with the United States, and this has become one of the important reasons for the total destruction of the Japanese Navy.
The final reason is Japan's wartime industrial capabilities. As the war became longer and longer, Even the most basic strategic materials of Japan were depleted. In this case, Japan's domestic industrial level is in ruins, while the price of basic daily necessities in Japan is rising all the way, and inflation is more serious than before the war. But unlike Japan, the level of industry in the United States, even in wartime, has not stagnated a little, but has continued to develop. At that time, when the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, it seemed that it destroyed a lot of American battleships, and as a result, the United States produced a lot of them in a turn. Taking the Battle of Coral Island as an example, the Japanese aircraft carrier Xianghe was injured and it took a month to be transported back to the Japanese mainland for repair, but the Yorktown, which was seriously injured by the US military, was transported back to Pearl Harbor and repaired in three days and three nights. Tell me, is the gap obvious? #抗日战争 #
