Battleship Yamato
Yamato warships were built when Japan was still bound by treaties on weapons and war equipment restrictions, the Washinton Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty. As a result of the agreement, Japan should only build small and unarmed ships.
But in 1936, the agreement was revoked and Yamato which was originally designed for small boats, quietly modified and built into a super-powered warship totaling 72,800 tons. Once built in a secret place, namely the Japanese Navy base in Kure, in 1940 Yamato out of the nest and ready to serve on the battlefield.
As a super warship, the body of the ship that surrounds Yamato is coated with steel as thick as 410 mm and steel coating the deck as thick as 200 mm. Yamato's cannon guns are pretty much and have a big caliber. Among other things, nine caliber cannons are 46 cm, 12 15.5 cm caliber cannons, 12 calibers 12.7 cm and 24 25 mm caliber cannon.
In 1945 when Yamato was assigned as Japan's last bastion of defense at sea, and the cannon was augmented: 162 25 AA caliber cannon, 24 12.7 cm caliber guns, 4 AA 13 mm caliber guns, and 7 plane launchers. Yamato who had become Admiral flagship (Laksamana) Yamamoto, had been involved in the battle of Midway, Battle of the Philippines Sea, Battle of Leyte Gulf and Battle of Samar.
Yamato greatness described by the Japanese Navy as a warship that can not be drowned even more terrible when Yamato equipped radar seeker aircraft and enemy ships. Yamato greatness is proven, a number of bombs and torpedoes that hit his body only cause minor damage. After returning to the base and the damage was repaired, Yamato who usually also added the latest cannon is ready to fight again.
Battleship Yamato Final Fight
Yamato's final battle was when trying to defend the Okinawan islands at the end of 1945 at the end of World War II. As the island that was Japan's last defense, the Yamato crew was assigned to fight to the death in order to defend the sacred island.
Yamato who is in a state ready for combat sailed to Okinawa.
However, the US Navy who managed to sniff its existence immediately intercepted when Yamato sailed about 200 km from Okinawa. A total of 386 bombers and torpedo launchers were deployed to destroy Yamato.
The number of aircraft to beat Yamato deliberately deployed by the US and its allies in the hundreds because it was Yamato must be drowned. Because if Yamato did not drown, he would be a major obstacle to Allied invasions to Okinawa.
After being hit exactly as many as 8 bombs and 10 torpedoes, Yamato is believed Japan is unlikely to sink it finally drowned out with the whole crew. Due to the sinking of Yamato, a total of 2,475 crew members were killed. But 269 other crew managed to escape to the Japanese destroyer ship in charge of escorting Yamato
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