Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships - The Imperial Japanese Navy's WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, boasting ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

Prior to the days of Tomahawk missiles and aircraft carriers, battleships were the way a nation would flex its muscles at sea. In 1941, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was in the midst of its dash ...

The first thing to note about “Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony” is what the book is not: It’s neither a historical account of the ill-fated Japanese warship Yamato nor a history of the ...

No warships have captured the paradoxical blend of immense power and tragic futility quite like the battleships of the Yamato-class. They were, without question, the largest, most heavily armed, and ...

A-150 was the super battleship Japan dreamed of: Even as the Imperial Japanese Navy saw the potential for aircraft carriers in a future war with the United States, there were those who still believed ...