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Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 tons, six 510 mm...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class battleships and Japan’s Yamato-class...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Yamato, pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the heaviest battleship ever built, met a brutal end during Operation...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – IJN Musashi—sister ship to Yamato—was among the largest, most heavily armed battleships ever built. -Laid down in Nagasaki and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Japan’s unrealized “Super Yamato” (Design A-150) was Tokyo’s bid to dominate WWII at sea before U.S. industry fully mobilized....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Why the Yamato-Class Battleships Were Obsolete The Moment They Sailed No warships have captured the paradoxical blend of immense power and tragic futility quite...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, boasting massive 18.1-inch main guns....