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On a one vs one slugger match, who would come back home to port in better shape, USS West Virginia or Bismarck?
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Delcyros has some convincing figure to show how good the armor type and scheme was.
The WV was designed in WW1. Its armour protection scheme was a reflection of design philosophies of that the pre war era.
The Bismark was better protected and probably had better damage control designs simply for being a product of the 1930's where the engineers had a better understanding of ballistics and damage control.
I'd give the advantage in every category to the Bismark