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They were designed to be superior… meet face-to-face with enemies, endure disasters, and rejoice in victory… go down in history because of the courage of their crew… they are shipped worthy to be called
“Sea Legends!”
In this episode, watch the Yamato Life and Death of the Legendary Battleship. In the spring of 1945, it became clear that only a miracle could save Japan from defeat in World War II. The Land of the Rising Sun had lost almost all of its naval and air force, and US troops had already arrived in the Japanese islands.
On the morning of April 6, the famous Japanese warship Yamato set sail for his final battle. The hope of keeping the Japanese alive came from this superpower - the largest and most powerful warship at the time. That Pacific Ocean project, called Ten-Ichi-go (One Heaven), it was dangerous work. But belief in Yamato was almost religious, and the Japanese believed that luck would go hand in hand with the ship. The history of the Yamato tanker began 10 years before the last voyage.
In October 1935, Japanese engineers produced the first draft of the famous man. Unlike the Americans, their ships were limited in size that could pass through the Panama Canal with nothing stopping the Japanese from building ships of as large size and migration and equipping them as much as possible.
Japanese tailors plan to make warships more powerful than all their foreign counterparts and any ships to be built in the years to come.
The production facilities behind me were Kure Naval Arsenal in those days. Its port saw the birth of the battlefield of Yamato.
His keel was put on in 1937, and the ship was completed in 1941.
The Yamato was the world's heaviest warship. At that time, the total cost of construction was up to 130 million yen. That would be more than 1 trillion yen ($ 8 billion) at today's prices.
Japan had originally planned to build four ships on the Yamato scale.
However, the Pacific War broke out, and after the completion of the second ship, Musashi, Japan stopped building the third ship, the Shinano and did not start the fourth.
Eventually, Shinano became a pilot. Yamato is an ancient Japanese name, meaning "great harmony." A strict secret was kept in all its construction: a high hedge around it that encircled the harbor, all the engineers swore an oath of anonymity, and the workers who came in and out were compared to their pictures. Japanese shipbuilders certainly had something big to hide...
Total displacement: 72,808 t Height: 263 m Beam: 38.9 mDraft: 10.8 m
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Armament Main battery Three towers each with three 40-SK modes. Friendship: 460 mm Second battery Two towers with three 3-gauge rifles Size: 155 mm anti-aircraft Twelve coaxial Type 89 guns 89 Size: 127 mm Thirty-three barrel and one single cannon 96 automatic rifles.
Caliber: 25 mm Air group 7 aircraft (sight aircraft and sight aircraft). Weapons Large belt: 270-410 mm Large towers: 190-650 mm Integration tower: 300-500 mm Power plant 4 Kampala Engine equipment and 12 boilers Kampala Camp RO Power: 154,000 hp High speed: more than 27 knots Operating distance: 7,200 miles on ships with 16 knots The main features of Yamato are his main towers, each with three 460-mm rifles.
These rifles can fire up to 1.5 tons of shells at a top speed of 790 meters per second. The turret gun, including the barbette, weighed 3,000 tons. It could hold more than 150 men. Yamato's large turrets are guided by a fire control system, consisting of a guide that provides fire extinguishers, wide rangers, and electromechanical calculators (the first type of computers).
It was a modern system at the time: the lack of fire control radar to include global objectives was compensated by the high collection of salvoes. This gave the Japanese the ability to shoot equally with the world's leading military.
The second battery of the ship had two turrets, each with three 155-mm rifles. The guns had excellent ballistic features and could fit into a typical cruiser suit;
however, their fire rate was quite low.
At the time of the mission, Yamato was armed with six coaxial 127-mm anti-aircraft long-range aircraft, and the ground-based anti-aircraft guns contained eight three-dimensional 25-mm rifles.
A number of AA rifles were built regularly during the war. 127 mm anti-aircraft guns and 25-mm assault rifles had different categories of fire. So when the enemy plane flew into this gap, not a single gun was able to stop it. In addition, the 127-mm rifles had a lower mobility speed compared to incorrect height and depressive characteristics.
And they failed to shoot at the declared rate of 14 rounds per minute when the altitude was high or low.
Yamato enjoyed the heaviest costume in the history of shipbuilding - its US analog, the Iowa army had uniforms that were about 100 mm thin. The Japanese armor belt built a fort that covered more than half the length of the waterline. The most protected part was the ship's tower… the weapon systems became larger.
The Japanese built a huge warship that resembled 10 or 15 others. But the problem was that it didn't pay. You can build one Yamato warship, but it will still be destroyed when it faces 2, 3, or 10 US warships. There are still features such as mobility, quantity, quality, salvo on each side ...Yamato was sent in late 1941.
In his first career, the Battle of Midway, Yamato served as the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. During the war, from June 4 to 6, 1942, Yamato never fired and was used only as an HQ ship.
The Japanese military command saved their two best warships in the coming major wars with US ships. As a result, Japanese sailors began to feel disheartened by their brilliance. They even made the claim that the earth. '
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