Tamiya 78002 - 1/350 Japanese Yamato Battleship Kit - Order 78014  [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 used. Significant alterations had been made plus in March 1937 the ultimate proposition for a 68,200 ton ship ended up being adopted and building started at Kure Naval Dockyard on November 4th 1937. On August 8th 1940 the Yamato was launched and it was finished regarding sixteenth December 1941. The most characteristic function associated with Yamato had been the nine 46cm firearms, the greatest ever mounted on a ship. For camouflage the weapons had been called 40cm firearms of kind 94. That they had a maximum selection of 41,000 meters and may penetrate a 43cm armour plate from a distance of 30,000 meters. The price of fire had been two rounds each and every minute. An armour piercing projectile of type 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The gun barrel weighed about 166 tons as well as the revolving area of the turret was since hefty as 2,265 tons. Besides the powerful 46cm guns, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 weapons. The Yamato had exemplary protection. Its hull had been short and broad for its displacement. The turrets, connection, equipment, etc. had been disposed close to the centre where in fact the armour protection ended up being concentrated. Of almost 43,000 tons of metal, 21,266 tons was armour plating- more than 30percent for the load displacement. The size of the Yamato was 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes and it had a draft of 10 metres. To gauge just how huge the Yamato ended up being, the height from keel to top of connection ended up being significantly more than 50 metres, the hull included six decks additionally the bridge framework thirteen decks. There have been about 400 speaking pipes, 750 phones and eight generators with an overall total output of no less than 4,800 kw, sufficient to produce a little town.

The Yamato first saw service inside Battle of Midway in June 1942, but it had been not until October 25th 1944 that the 45cms firearms had been first found in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato participated in "Operation Ten No.1" (procedure kikusui), as well as on the 7th April at the beginning of the morning japan product had been spotted by an enemy airplane and in the afternoon it had been assaulted by above 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato ended up being hit by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and also at 2.23 p.m. it sank with its team of 2,498 without appearing the worth of its huge firearms.