Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Japanese super- battleship Yamato.

The most powerful battleship ever built. The Japanese super-battleship Yamato.

Weight, 64,000 tons

Speed, 27 knots

Main armament, 9 18inch guns

Launched, 8th August 1940

Sunk, 7th April 1945 off the coast of Okinawa.This is the Yamato during it's trail run in 1941.
This is when the Yamato exploded and sank off the coast of Okinawa by US Navy dive bombers and torpedo bombers.

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