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91,000 tons: Japan designed a battleship even bigger than the Yamato, with 20-inch guns. It never built a single one
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed ...
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Japan hid the biggest battleships ever built so well that US intelligence still thought they had 16-inch guns four months after one sank
The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and ...
The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...
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Here’s What You Need To Remember: As a ship designed to prolong the ability of Japan’s carriers to fight without returning to port, it was designed to support Japan’s tradition of ...
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