Cook
Banned
I will spell it out again: The aircraft that sank the Prince of Wales and Repulse used the exact same type of torpedo, launched from the same height and same close range, as Japanese carrier based aircraft carried.The Japanese aircraft that sank the PoW and Repulse were land based large bombers, not carrier capable aircraft.
The absence of American Battleships from the list of vessels sunk at sea in the first year of the Pacific war is not because Japanese carrier based aircraft could not do it, it is because the American Battleships were safely back in California; the US navy would not risk their use.