Tamiya 78014 - 1/350 IJN Japanese Battleship Yamato  [78014]

In October 1934 the Japanese Navy began plans for a new superdreadnought battleship, and after 22 months a proposition called A140-F5 had been used. Substantial changes had been made plus in March 1937 the last proposition 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 premiered also it was finished in the 16th December 1941. The most characteristic feature of the Yamato ended up being the nine 46cm firearms, the greatest ever installed on a ship. For camouflage the weapons were called 40cm guns of kind 94. They had a maximum range of 41,000 meters and might penetrate a 43cm armour plate from a distance of 30,000 meters. The rate of fire was two rounds per minute. An armour piercing projectile of kind 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The weapon barrel weighed about 166 tons plus the revolving the main turret was as hefty as 2,265 tons. Besides the powerful 46cm firearms, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 firearms. The Yamato had excellent security. Its hull ended up being quick and broad because of its displacement. The turrets, bridge, equipment, etc. were disposed near the centre where the armour security ended up being focused. Of almost 43,000 a great deal of metal, 21,266 tons ended up being armour plating- significantly more than 30percent associated with load displacement. The length of the Yamato ended up being 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes therefore had a draft of 10 metres. To gauge just how huge the Yamato ended up being, the height from keel to top of connection had been above 50 metres, the hull included six decks and also the connection structure thirteen decks. There have been about 400 speaking tubes, 750 telephones and eight generators with a total production of no less than 4,800 kw, sufficient to supply a tiny town.

The Yamato first saw solution within the Battle of Midway in June 1942, nonetheless it had been not until October 25th 1944 that the 45cms guns had been first utilized in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato took part in "Operation Ten No.1" (Operation kikusui), as well as on the 7th April at the beginning of the morning the Japanese product ended up being spotted by an enemy airplane as well as in the afternoon it had been assaulted by over 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato was struck by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and also at 2.23 p.m. it sank having its team of 2,498 without showing the worth of its huge weapons. *(Overall length 755mm)