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In 1944, both Yamato and Musashi underwent significant anti-aircraft upgrades in preparation for operations in Leyte Gulf [60] using the space freed up by the removal of both midships 15.5 cm (6.1 in) secondary battery turrets, [61] and ended up with a complement of twenty-four 12.7 cm (5.0 in) guns, [61] and one hundred and sixty-two 25 mm (0. ...
Musashi and Yamato in Truk Lagoon in early 1943. Musashi was commissioned at Nagasaki on 5 August 1942, and assigned to the 1st Battleship Division, together with Yamato, Nagato and Mutsu. [22] Beginning five days later, the ship conducted machinery and aircraft-handling trials near Hashirajima. Her secondary armament of twelve 127 mm guns, 12 ...
Musashi only fired type 3 AA shells out of her main guns before being sunk by air attacks. Yamato managed to engage enemy warships during the battle off Samar , October 25, 1944, definitively confirming several hits with her 46 cm main guns to the escort carrier USS Gambier Bay and the destroyer USS Johnston , sinking both ships, alongside ...
Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed by an American submarine which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she was refitted with additional anti ...
A 46 cm (18 in) Sanshiki shell displayed at the Yamato Museum The explosion of a 46 cm (18 in) San Shikidan incendiary anti-aircraft shell. San-shiki-dan (三式弾, "Type 3 shell") was a World War II-era combined shrapnel and incendiary anti-aircraft round used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They were supposedly referred to as Beehive rounds ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato (8 August 1940), seen in 1941, and her sister ship Musashi (1 November 1940) were the largest battleships in history. By contrast, the Imperial Japanese Navy had the advantage of a dozen operational battleships early in the war, but chose not to deploy them in any significant engagements.
Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi, were a central element of Japan's "Decisive Battle" doctrine. The Decisive Battle Doctrine (艦隊決戦, Kantai Kessen, "naval fleet decisive battle") was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the Second World War.
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.