Military - A 1/1 Yamato

[nyarlathotep]

http://www.oshipee.com/omami/image/yamatoset00.jpg

http://www.oshipee.com/omami/e-frame-photo.htm

If I were there, I don't think my weak knees could take it. Lust.

[gYmBaG]

holy cow, how old is that thing though? as nice as it looks, with all that firepower, im sure its out dated, which is why its going on display, thats the only thing i can think of, but oh my, that ship is loaded :eek:

[nyarlathotep]

Dude, both of them were sunk. That's a recreation they are building for a movie...not the real thing but I wish it were.

[gYmBaG]

ohh lol im dumb, but yeah, i wish i could have seen the real thing, or even the one they are rebuilding now, it looks huge

[Enders]

what movie?

[Prowl]

they took a shitload to sink though, most survivable boats ever built. Shame really that by the time they were completed the era of the battleship was at an end, as the aircraft carrier with its embarked air wing could attack from beyond visual range. Both the Yamamato and the Mushashi were sunk by airwings from US Carriers.

[Kak]

Yeah the Japanese in its day had a really fantastic navy.

[Milkman Dan]

From the looks of it, it was probably really easy to hit. That thing must've been slow with all those guns and crap.

[vecdran]

From the looks of it, it was probably really easy to hit. That thing must've been slow with all those guns and crap.

That's why it had enough armor plating to resist multiple torpedo hits.

[Kak]

Yeah that thing got attacked like crazy all the time, it never even got seriously damaged untill the last day it saw combat, and it took a lot to bring it down.

[GoatChomper]

Yeah that thing got attacked like crazy all the time.....
Actually, no.....its very first combat action was its last.

[Milkman Dan]

Some pictures shamelessly stolen from Wiki:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Yamato_battleship_construction.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Yamato_battleship_explosion.jpg

Her final mission was as part of Operation Ten-Go following the invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945. She was sent on a suicide mission to attack the US fleet supporting the US troops landing on the west of the island. On 6 April Yamato and her escorts, the light cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers, left port at Tokuyama. They were sighted on 7 April by American submarines as they exited the Inland Sea southwards. The U.S. Navy launched 386 aircraft to intercept the task force, and the planes engaged the ships starting at 1230 that afternoon. Yamato took 8 bomb and 10 torpedo hits before, at about 1423, she capsized to port and her aft magazines detonated. She sank still some 200 km from Okinawa. 2,475 of her crew were lost, and 269 survivors were picked up by the escorting destroyers.
Jesus Christ.

[Memorex]

that is so awesome

[nyarlathotep]

She got into a few scuffs before that. Torpedoed by the USS Skate, minor damage at Leyte, and damaged by U.S. raids of the home islands.

As thoroughly armored as she was, there still wasn't enough below the waterline to stop torpedoes.

[Kak]

Actually, no.....its very first combat action was its last.

Well this is what Wikipedia told me, and I saw a show on it on the discovery channel

She returned to Truk on 25 December 1943, and on the way there, she was damaged by a torpedo from the submarine USS Skate, and was not fully repaired until April 1944. During these repairs, additional 12.7 cm anti-aircraft guns were installed in the place of the 15.5 cm turrets removed in May, and additional 25 mm anti-aircraft guns were added. She returned to the conflict and joined the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 In October, she participated in the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Samar, during which she first fired her main guns in action, and she received two bomb hits from aircraft which did little damage. She returned home in November and her anti-aircraft capability was again upgraded over the winter. She was attacked in the Inland Sea on March 19, 1945 by carrier aircraft from Task Force 58 as they attacked Kure. She suffered little damage during the engagement.

[Mr.P]

The Japanese Yamato class were big, but they weren't great fighters. They had very bad fire control systems compared to what the British and Americans were using. They had no radar, and the optical range finding equipment they did have was sub-par. This is one of the main reasons the Japanese adapted carriers so quickly, knowing their distinct disadvantage in this area, and wound up actually being ahead of their time. The main original purpose of the Yamato class was less meant for ship to ship, but for VERY heavy shore bombardment in the Japanese eventually domination of the Pacific, which, thankfully, didn't happen.

[Enders]

Wow, sent on a suicide mission?
You'd think they'd hold something this powerful back incase of an American naval invasion on homesoil.

[Milkman Dan]

Well this is what Wikipedia told me, and I saw a show on it on the discovery channel
The first mission really wasn't a combat mission for it.

[Shadow]

fuckin hell, that thing is a no-shit juggernaut... holy christ... hahaha damn shame it went to the bottom.

[Sharpshooter6]

Wow, sent on a suicide mission?
You'd think they'd hold something this powerful back incase of an American naval invasion on homesoil.

Either way, it would have been elminated rather quickly. They figured it would be of better use in trying to disrupt the invasion of Okinawa.



The Musashi took even more of a beating before sinking to the bottom in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Her extensive protection ultimately failed after being subjected to twenty torpedoe hits, seventeen bomb hits, and the destructive force of the detonation of sixteen near misses in the water.