Tamiya 78002 - 1/350 Japanese Yamato Battleship Kit - Order 78014  [78002]

Concerning the Japanese Yamato Battleship

In October 1934 the Japanese Navy began plans for a new superdreadnought battleship, and after 22 months a proposal called A140-F5 was used. Significant improvements had been made as well as in March 1937 the last proposal for a 68,200 ton ship had been used and building began at Kure Naval Dockyard on November 4th 1937. On August 8th 1940 the Yamato premiered plus it ended up being finished on the sixteenth December 1941. The most characteristic function of the Yamato was the nine 46cm guns, the greatest ever mounted on a ship. For camouflage the weapons were called 40cm weapons of type 94. They had a maximum array of 41,000 meters and could penetrate a 43cm armour dish from a distance of 30,000 meters. The price of fire ended up being two rounds each and every minute. An armour piercing projectile of type 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The weapon barrel weighed about 166 tons together with revolving part of the turret had been because hefty as 2,265 tons. In addition to the effective 46cm weapons, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 guns. The Yamato had excellent protection. Its hull had been quick and broad for the displacement. The turrets, bridge, equipment, etc. were disposed near the centre where the armour security had been concentrated. Of almost 43,000 a great deal of metal, 21,266 tons had been armour plating- more than 30% regarding the load displacement. The length of the Yamato had been 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes also it had a draft of 10 metres. To gauge just how huge the Yamato had been, the height from keel to top of bridge had been over 50 metres, the hull contained six decks together with bridge framework thirteen decks. There were about 400 speaking tubes, 750 telephones and eight generators with an overall total output of no less than 4,800 kw, enough to provide a little city.

The Yamato first saw solution in Battle of Midway in June 1942, however it ended up being not until October 25th 1944 your 45cms firearms were first used in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato participated in "Operation Ten No.1" (procedure kikusui), as well as on the 7th April early in the morning the Japanese unit was spotted by an enemy airplane plus in the afternoon it absolutely was attacked by a lot more than 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato had been struck by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and also at 2.23 p.m. it sank having its crew of 2,498 without appearing the worth of its huge firearms.