78014 Tamiya - 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 have been adopted. Significant changes have been made plus in March 1937 the final proposition for a 68,200 ton ship was indeed used and building started at Kure Naval Dockyard on November 4th 1937. On August 8th 1940 the Yamato was launched therefore was indeed completed on sixteenth December 1941. The absolute most characteristic feature about the Yamato wound up being the nine 46cm weapons, the greatest ever attached to a ship. For camouflage the firearms were called 40cm weapons of kind 94. That they had a maximum collection of 41,000 meters and might penetrate a 43cm armour plate from a distance of 30,000 meters. The price of fire ended up being two rounds each and every minute. An armour piercing projectile of sort 91 weighed 1.4 tons. The weapon barrel weighed about 166 tons as well as the revolving some the turret had been because hefty as 2,265 tons. Form effective 46cm tools, the Yamato carried twelve 15.5 weapons. The Yamato had excellent protection. Its hull was indeed brief and broad because of its displacement. The turrets, connection, equipment, etc. have been disposed near the centre where in actuality the armour security had been focused. Of almost 43,000 a great deal of metal, 21,266 tons ended up being armour plating- over 30% for the load displacement. Along the Yamato was in fact 256 metres, the breadth 34.6 metes and yes it had a draft of 10 metres. To evaluate precisely how huge the Yamato finished up being, the height from keel to top of connection was in fact a lot more than 50 metres, the hull included six decks and connection framework thirteen decks. There have been about 400 speaking tubes, 750 telephones and eight generators with an overall total production of a minimum of 4,800 kw, enough to make a tiny town.

The Yamato first saw solution within the Battle of Midway in June 1942, nonetheless it was not until October 25th 1944 your 45cms weapons had been very first employed in action. On April 6th 1945 the Yamato took part in "Operation Ten No.1" (procedure kikusui), and on the 7th April at the beginning of the morning japan item was spotted by an enemy airplane plus in the afternoon it had been attacked by above 300 enemy aircraft. The Yamato was struck by ten torpedoes and eight bombs and also at 2.23 p.m. it sank featuring its team of 2,498 without showing the worth of its huge weapons. *(generally speaking size 755mm)