The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force increasingly resembles the former Imperial Japanese Navy, but in a smaller size
Here s What You Need to Remember: Yet to come into focus is whether Tokyo would opt to build a new warship or a derivative of vessels currently in the fleet. TheDrive cited a report from Tokyo s
Kyodo News agency, which suggested that the government was considering a vessel with a standard displacement of around 8,000 tons – which would be larger than the current
Maya-class s displacement of 8,200 tons.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force increasingly resembles the former Imperial Japanese Navy, but in a smaller size. It has a fleet of some 154 ships and operates 346 aircraft. In 2000 it has also been the world s fourth-largest navy by tonnage, and likely will only increase in size.
Here s What You Need to Remember: At 14:23, it happened.
Yamato’s forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off.
In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful battleships ever built to protect Okinawa, the gateway to Japan’s Home Islands. The decision sealed the fate of the battleship
Yamato and its crew, but ironically did nothing to actually protect the island from Allied invasion.
The battleship
Yamato was among the largest and most powerful battleships of all time.
Yamato has reached nearly mythical status, a perfect example of Japan’s fascination with doomed, futile heroics. Built in 1937 at the Kure Naval Arsenal near Hiroshima, it was constructed in secrecy to avoid alarming the United States. Japan had recently withdrawn from the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited battleship tonnages, and was free to build them a
Japan’s Increasingly Powerful Navy Looks Very Familiar
Tokyo might not have a fleet like the old Imperial one, but the modern fleet has a similar structure.
Key point: Tokyo still has one of the world s best navies. In fact, Japan is only working on building up its self-defense forces.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force increasingly resembles the former Imperial Japanese Navy, but in a smaller size. It has a fleet of some 154 ships and operates 346 aircraft. In 2000 it has also been the world s fourth-largest navy by tonnage, and likely will only increase in size.
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
Yet by 1942, Japan began to realize that it needed aircraft carriers more than battleships. Naval warfare was now ruled by these floating airfields, and Japan had lost its four best at the Battle of Midway. The orders came down to convert
Shinano into an aircraft carrier such as the world had never seen.
At 69,000 tons, it was the double the tonnage of the Essex-class carriers that won the Pacific War for America, and would remain the largest until the advent of nuclear-powered carriers in the early 1960s. Its main deck, already sheathed in armor up to 7.5 inches thick, became the hangar deck where aircraft were serviced. On top was the flight deck to launch and recover planes, itself protected by 3.75 inches of armor.
It would have been the biggest battleship of all time. So what happened?
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Nazis had what could truly be described as delusions of grandeur and that included Germania, the projected renewal of the capital city of Berlin after the planned victory in Europe. Among the grandest was the Volkshalle – a planned domed building that likely would have been difficult if not impossible to actually build.
H-Class Battleship, Explained
Such grandiose projects weren t limited to architecture and the German military considered massive bombers, super tanks, and then there were the H-class super battleships that would have dwarfed both the