Tamiya 78014 - 1/350 IJN Japanese Battleship Yamato  [78014]

In October 1934 the Japanese Navy started plans for a fresh superdreadnought battleship, and after 22 months a proposition called A140-F5 had been adopted. Substantial changes had been made plus in March 1937 the final 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 was launched therefore had been completed on sixteenth December 1941. The absolute most characteristic feature regarding the Yamato ended up being the nine 46cm weapons, the largest ever mounted on a ship. For camouflage the firearms were called 40cm weapons of kind 94. That they had a maximum selection of 41,000 meters and might penetrate a 43cm armour plate from a distance of 30,000 meters. The price of fire was two rounds per minute. An armour piercing projectile of kind 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The gun barrel weighed about 166 tons as well as the revolving an element of the turret was since hefty as 2,265 tons. Besides the effective 46cm weapons, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 weapons. The Yamato had exemplary protection. Its hull had been brief and broad for its displacement. The turrets, bridge, equipment, etc. had been disposed near the centre where the armour security had been concentrated. Of almost 43,000 tons of steel, 21,266 tons was armour plating- over 30% for the load displacement. Along the Yamato had been 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes also it had a draft of 10 metres. To gauge exactly how huge the Yamato ended up being, the height from keel to top of bridge had been more than 50 metres, the hull included six decks together with connection framework thirteen decks. There were about 400 speaking tubes, 750 telephones and eight generators with a total output of no less than 4,800 kw, enough to produce a tiny city.

The Yamato first saw service in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, nonetheless it was not until October 25th 1944 your 45cms guns were first utilized in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato took part in "Operation Ten No.1" (procedure kikusui), and on the 7th April at the beginning of the morning japan product was spotted by an enemy plane plus in the afternoon it was attacked by above 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato was struck by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and also at 2.23 p.m. it sank featuring its crew of 2,498 without demonstrating the worth of its huge guns. *(In General size 755mm)