IJN Yamato Class Battleships

Ashes · May 22, 2008, 8:35am

Iowas advantages would be superior Radar and fire control, and speed, while Yamato would have the advantage with armour protection and weight and range of broadside.
Would be an epic confrontation.

Cpt_Pugwash · June 12, 2008, 3:38pm

Hello Everybody!

I’m expecting a lot of different replies to this but that is why I’m posting this.
I’m trying to do some research into the colour scheme of this Battle ship in different periods of its life. I have read in some places that when it was launched the ship was a uniform shade of grey and had a cypress covered deck. I then read that in the latter part of its life its deck was painted a darker shade of grey than the hull. I’ve tried looking for photos but black and white images don’t help me determine what shade the ship was. Can anyone enlighten me?

George_Eller · June 12, 2008, 8:51pm

Merged related threads on IJN Yamato and Yamato Class Battleship Guns.

George_Eller · June 12, 2008, 8:55pm

http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showpost.php?p=120606&postcount=65

Major_Walter_Schmidt · June 13, 2008, 4:30am

Hi! Im on vacation and I might go to the Yamato museum and there is a 1/10thb scale model of the Yamato among other IJN stuff. I might even go to the dock in wich the big thing was built. Might get some nice pics.

Major_Walter_Schmidt · July 5, 2008, 1:06pm

Schwerpunkt:

The Yamato class had a major liability in a design flaw in their underwater protection system. The joint holding the lower belt and the torpedo bulkhead was weak and torpedo hits could cause major flooding. To revise this design would have been too costly although Japanese naval authorities were aware of this defect.
The floating 46cm shell is a myth, possibly being confused with the diving shell which was designed to penetrate the water short of the target, follow a trajectory to the underwater hull of the target and penetrate under the armored belt. This design was a feature of all AP shells above 20.3 cm in caliber.
A follow on design to YAMATO, A-150 was to have weighted 70,000 tons and carried six 51cm guns (3x2) and 20+ 10.0 cm flak. An 18inch belt would have been featured constructed in two strakes. This feature would have been less effective than one belt of the same thickness but Japanese industry was incapable of making Class A face hardened armor of that depth.
Yamato’ other fault was her lack of endurance. She could make 7,200 miles at 16 knots which was not sufficient for Pacific warfare. The original design, A140a was to have had diesels as well as turbines for a radius of 9,000 miles. This design was rejected as too large (69,100 tons standard). This design also was to have carried all nine 46cm guns forward and all twelve 15.5cm guns aft.

thats wierd. I saw a guy on NHK (japanese ver. of the BBC) say otherwise on a History program on the Yamato when I was in Japan.

namvet · July 14, 2008, 10:22pm

Japan YAMATO VS USA Missouri
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RgNYJn0I0