For armament, the Bismarck relied on eight 38 cm SK C/34 guns arranged in four twin gun turrets. The secondary armament featured twelve 15 cm L/55 guns, sixteen 10.5 cm L/65 guns, sixteen 3.7 cm L ...

Its main armament consisted of eight 15-inch guns ... The Tirpitz and the Bismarck were each meant to serve as commerce raiders, disrupting key Allied supply lines in the Atlantic and forcing ...