Yamato’s armor was astonishingly thick, with a 410mm belt along the waterline and 650mm on the main turret faces, designed to withstand massive 18-inch shell impacts hurled from rival American ...

Yamato was sunk during the closing days of the Pacific War in 1945 while making a sortie to Okinawa Prefecture on a suicide mission. The lathe is about 17 meters long, 5 meters wide and 5 meters high.