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Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
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Japan could not out-build the United States and knew it, so it built one ship no American battleship could match: 863 feet, 72,000 tons,...
Japan could not match American industrial capacity, so its designers tried to win on individual ships instead. Yamato was the result: nine 18.1-inch guns...
America drew a battleship to beat Yamato and never cut the steel. The Montana-class was authorized under the Two-Ocean Navy Act, named in December...
Two battleships as 1945 actually found them, one on one, no aircraft and no escorts. Yamato brings 72,800 tons, a 16.1-inch belt and nine...
She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...
The Montana-class exists only as numbers: 70,965 tons full load, twelve 16-inch guns, armor built to stop its own shells, five ships assigned to...
Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were larger, carried heavier guns and wore thicker armor. The Iowa class still offered the stronger overall combat system through superior...
Japan’s battleship Musashi displaced more than 72,000 tons, carried nine 18.1-inch guns and protected its vital spaces with armor more than two feet thick....
USS Idaho entered service in 1919 with twelve 14-inch guns and a 32,000-ton displacement. A major rebuild pushed her above 36,000 tons before she...
Before Yamato had even entered service, Japan was studying its successor. Design A-150, later nicknamed the Super Yamato, was to carry six 51-centimeter guns,...