In the 1930s, Japan’s naval engineers set out to build the most powerful warship ever conceived. The result was the ...

What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance..

Development on the class of super-battleship began in secret before Japan refused to recognize the Washington Treaty of December 1934, while construction was part of the nation’s massive naval ...

The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...

November 1944. Off Japan’s coast, the USS Archerfish tracks an enormous shadow across the sea. Its captain, Joseph Enright, ...