Tamiya 78002 - 1/350 Japanese Yamato Battleship Kit - Order 78014 田宮軍事模型戰艦 雙星孖星  [78002]

Towards Japanese Yamato Battleship

In October 1934 japan Navy started plans for a brand new superdreadnought battleship, and after 22 months a proposal called A140-F5 ended up being adopted. Significant adjustments were made and in March 1937 the final proposal for a 68,200 ton ship was adopted and building started at Kure Naval Dockyard on November 4th 1937. On August 8th 1940 the Yamato was launched also it ended up being completed regarding sixteenth December 1941. Probably the most characteristic function associated with the Yamato was the nine 46cm guns, the greatest ever attached to a ship. For camouflage the weapons had been called 40cm guns of type 94. They had a maximum array of 41,000 meters and might penetrate a 43cm armour dish from a distance of 30,000 meters. The rate of fire had been two rounds each minute. An armour piercing projectile of kind 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The weapon barrel weighed about 166 tons together with revolving the main turret ended up being because hefty as 2,265 tons. As well as the powerful 46cm weapons, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 firearms. The Yamato had exemplary security. Its hull ended up being quick and broad for the displacement. The turrets, bridge, machinery, etc. were disposed nearby the centre where the armour security ended up being concentrated. Of almost 43,000 tons of metal, 21,266 tons had been armour plating- a lot more than 30percent for the load displacement. The size of the Yamato had been 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes therefore had a draft of 10 metres. To evaluate exactly how huge the Yamato had been, the height from keel to top of bridge was significantly more than 50 metres, the hull included six decks additionally the connection structure thirteen decks. There have been about 400 talking tubes, 750 phones and eight generators with a total production of no less than 4,800 kw, sufficient to supply a tiny town.

The Yamato first saw service inside Battle of Midway in June 1942, nonetheless it had been perhaps not until October 25th 1944 your 45cms weapons had been first utilized in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato took part in "Operation Ten No.1" (Operation kikusui), and on the 7th April at the beginning of the early morning the Japanese product was spotted by an enemy plane and in the afternoon it was attacked by significantly more than 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato was hit by ten torpedoes and eight bombs as well as 2.23 p.m. it sank along with its crew of 2,498 without demonstrating the worth of its huge firearms.