But before the battleship became outdated ... After its final modifications in 1945, the Yamato carried 205 guns. In terms of main guns, the Yamato carried the largest cannons in naval history.

Comprising three ships—Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano—they featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three ...

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...

The behemoth battleship Yamato was dispatched on its suicidal mission ... to beach the vessel and use its mighty arsenal as a gun battery. More than 4,000 sailors, equivalent to the total ...

Then there is the argument that this class was designed to be a "Yamato killer," capable of taking on the Imperial Japanese Navy's powerful battleship. Aircraft, not big gun battleships were what ...