Just how big was Japan's WWII battleship Yamato

[1srelluc]

"Displacing nearly 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) at full load, the completed battleships were the heaviest ever constructed. The class carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, nine 460 mm (18.1 in) naval guns, each capable of firing 1,460 kg (3,220 lb) shells over 42 km (26 mi)."

"The final design called for a standard displacement of 64,000 long tons (65,000 t) and a full-load displacement of 69,988 long tons (71,111 t),[25] making the ships of the class the largest battleships yet designed, and the largest battleships ever constructed.

The design called for a main armament of nine 460 mm naval guns, mounted in three three-gun turrets each of which weighed more than a 1930s-era destroyer.

The designs were quickly approved by the Japanese Naval high command, over the objections of naval aviators, who argued for the construction of aircraft carriers rather than battleships. In all, five Yamato-class battleships were planned." -wiki

The US planned on building the Montana class battleships, but no keels were ever laid due to concentrating on the carrier fleet.

 

[odanny]

Carefully shielded from Allied bombers during most of the war in a harbor in Japan, it was sent on a suicide mission with no air cover to Okinawa, and was needlessly sacrificed.

I'm not sure what its actual wartime campaigns yielded but the Japanese did not want to lose it until they knew the war was lost and they threw it away along with 2,000 sailors.

It was an engineering marvel for its firepower, its speed, and its overall sailing ability.

 

[Rambunctious]

Just watched the remake of Midway on Netflix... I highly recommend it...

 

[Unkotare]