Today you are going to learn about Japan (Just like in Oliwia's posts . Maybe not exeactly but JAPAN !!!!!). Today's topic is of course the heaviest of ships ever created (Well , now only the 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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The history of this beauty:
Japanese high command wanted 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 scared , and when they heard the word "Yamato", they wanted to 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's point was just to capture a new atoll(Midway). It was used as the flag ship .The operation on Philippines islands was the second chapter in it's battle history. It was a succesfull for americans operation, to regain control of the Philippines islands. Yamato , alomost wasn't in the 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 a desperate (stupid) try to recover Okinava without any chances to succeed. "Yamato" was hit by 13 torpedos i 8 bombs that weighed over a ton. It was taking water , but then the ammo magazine was destroyed and it expolded (Normal stuff for such big ships). And it's the 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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