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Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941 [14] Yamato ' s main battery consisted of nine 45-caliber 46-centimetre (18.1 in) Type 94 guns—the largest ever fitted to a warship, [15] although the shells were not as heavy as those fired by the British 18-inch naval guns of World War I.
English: Operation "Ten-Go", 7 April 1945: Smoke rises to the clouds shortly after the Japanese battleship Yamato capsized, exploded and sank after receiving many bomb and torpedo hits from U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa. An escorting destroyer is visible to the left of the smoke.
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
Yamato communicated this message to the other surviving ships by signal flag because her radios had been destroyed. [46] Only known photo of Yamato exploding [33] Itō, along with Captain Kōsaku Aruga, who commanded Yamato for the battle, refused to abandon ship, with Itō retiring to the flag cabin while Aruga tied himself to the binnacle. [47]
The IJN was so short of fuel that Yamato had only enough to reach Okinawa. Off Okinawa, it was planned to beach the battleship and use her 18.1 inches (46 cm) guns to support the fighting on the island. [64] Many of the captains of the ships were opposed to the operation, preferring to be set loose as sea raiders. [64]
Original - A scheme of the Japanese battleship Yamato in her final configuration on April 7, 1945. Reason A big, annotated scheme of the Japanese WWII sea god in his final configuration. Has a scale. Articles in which this image appears Japanese battleship Yamato, Yamato class battleship FP category for this image Diagrams Creator Alexpl