Reply #25: "In terms of naval warfare the Japanese were way behind the other powers too"

[Stella_Artois]

Not sure i entirely agree with this assesment, in the early part of the war. Obviously they understood that airpower spelt the end of the battleship, since their airpower saw to the end of many US and British battleship in the first months.

Their tactics, ships, gunnery, night tactics and above all the infamous "long lance" torpedo were very advanced. They went to war with working torpedoes and the US did not.

Their problem was one of production, much like the Italians. They just were buried under an avalanche of jeep carriers and liberty ships.