Until they retrofitted it for outer space. That was much more effective:
Posted on 03/12/2017 11:45:09 AM PDT by DFG
Japan withdrew from the London Naval Treaty in 1936. The chief Japanese negotiator, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, feared that concessions on the part of his negotiating team would lead directly to his assassination upon return to Japan. Japanese nationalists believed that the Washington Naval Treaty system was holding Japan back and preventing it from becoming a first-rate power. Freed from the constraints of international treaties, they believed that Japan could build a world-beating fleet that would push the Western powers out of Asia and help usher in a new era of Japanese dominance.
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Biggest battleships, although dwarfed by Nimitz class carriers! (I know, I know, different eras)
Well, I guess that’s why they won the war ...
Which ones still float?
The flaw in the reasoning of Imperial Japanese Naval thinkers was their failure to realize that the battleship was largely obsolete. Air power destroyed them. Indeed some of our naval people realized Pearly Harbor destroyed a lot of obsolete shipping and cleared the way for the carrier. It was the carrier which was a large factor in winning the war in the Pacific.
The Yamato saw very limited action before it was sunk. A huge waste of money.
Yes. Some where Billy Mitchell is smilimg
Yep. By the way they had “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” the other night.
The Yamato saw very limited action before it was sunk. A huge waste of money.
Building instant scrap ,LOL
They should have built more Shokaku class carriers instead.
Until they retrofitted it for outer space. That was much more effective:
Musashi as well. Those ships were a huge waste of resources.
As someone who lost his home and family in a Gamilon planet bomb attack, I find any mention of those events offensive.
A great book on the subject is Kaigun. Can’t recall who wrote it but it’s a bible on the imperial navy.
Battleship Musashi fires her forward 18.1" guns!
Bigger, yet still inferior to the Iowa class.
>>As someone who lost his home and family in a Gamilon planet bomb attack, I find any mention of those events offensive.<<
That again? As we say: “Get oval it!”
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