The largest battleship ever constructed was the Japanese battleship Yamato. Known for her enormous size and powerful weapons, she was the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. With a hull length ...

It was 263 meters long and up to 38.9 meters wide. Yamato, which had an equally enormous sister battleship in the Musashi, took almost seven years to finish.

The Yamato Class battleships were the pinnacle of naval engineering during World War II, representing Japan’s ambition and power. In this video, we explore their incredible design, their role in ...

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In the late 1930s, as global tensions rose and the drumbeats of war echoed across nations, Japan embarked on a quest to build the mightiest battleship the world had ever seen. The A-150 program, also ...

Also known as the Super Yamato -class, the Design A-150 battleship program began in late 1938. As conceived by its designers, the warship was to be armed with at least six 510mm (20-inch) guns as ...

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Source: Seb/Flickr The Japanese Yamato -class of battleships were some of the most powerful warships ever built, but even they would have paled in comparison to the A-150s.

Japan ordered two A-150 battleships in the 1942 construction program. The first would have succeeded HIJMS Shinano on the dock; the second, the never named fourth sister of the Yamato class.