Today you are going to learn about Japan (Just like in Oliwia's posts . Maybe not exeactly but JAPAN !!!!!). Todays topic is of course the heaviest of ships ever created (Well , now only american Aircraftcarrier "Nimitz" is heavier , but you see .... AMERICAN , they always have the biggest guns , ships , aircrafts , tanks etc.) . Of course it's "Yamato". Here's the photo of it :
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History of this beauty:
Japanese high command wanted an unsinkable batlleships (Yup , there were 3 of them) , because Japan wanted to join the war , but they were afraid of US aircraftcarriers and they wanted to sink them as fast as they could (ekhem Pearl Harbour ehkem). But later they were made to be more Anti-Aircraft(AA) fire station and sometimes a part of Japanese propaganda. Americans were scard , and when they heard word "Yamato" They wanted send all their forces to destroy it. Yamato wasn't used much on the battle , only in 3 operations , almost all the time of it's being it was standing in the port. It's first operation was on midway , and the whole operation point was just to capture new atoll(Midway). It was used as the flag ship.Operation on Philippines islands were the second chapter in it's battle history. It was succesfull for americans operation to regain control on Philippines islands. Yamato , alomost weren't in battle , but it's twin "Musashi" has been sunk during the battle (Same way as "Yamato"). And the last operation called "Ten-go" took place on 7.04.1945. It was just desperate (stupid) try to recover Okinava without ant chances to suceed. "Yamato" was hit by 13 torpedos i 8 bombs that weighed over a ton. It was taking water , but then ammo magazine was destroyed and it expolded (Normal stuff for that big ships). End it's end of this sad story about nukes , Binladen , Russia and sushi (Musashi !!).
Techincal thingies :
Production start: 4.11.1937
Launching: 8.8.1940
Active duty start: 16.12.1941
Sunken on : 7.4.1945
Lenght: 256 M
Width: 38.9 M
Dipping: 11M 9x 460mm canons
Weaponary: 1941- 12x 155mm canons
12x 127mm canons
24x 25mm AA guns
4x 13.2mm AA guns
Weaponry: 1945- 9x 460mm canons
6x 155mm canons
24x 127mm canons
162x 25mm AA guns
4x 13.2mm AA guns
Max speed: 27 knotts (50km/h)
Crew: 2500/2800 man aboard
It could carry up to 7 recon planes on board that were lauched from 20 M long catapult.
And today I can't find good video with Yamato , so here's a song about Midway opartion:
And that's all form todays japanese lasson. I hope you enjoed it and see you on the next lesson!
//The Typical Loner
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