What You Need to Know: Japan’s Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, embarked on a one-way mission during the final stages of World War II. In April 1945, with just enough fuel for a single ...

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.

Key Point: It was a humiliating end for a battleship capable of twenty-seven knots, but the lack of fuel and other military resources made for truly desperate times. In early 1945, the Imperial ...

In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato sailed on her last mission—Operation Ten-Go. Ordered to attack Allied forces at ...

Yamato was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy shortly before World War II. 9pm WORLD WAR II MEGA WEAPONS - History - This series unveils the engineering ...

Japanese battleship Yamato under construction at the Kure Naval Base, Japan, September 20, 1941. The aircraft carrier Hōshō is at the extreme right. The supply ship Mamiya is in the center distance.

You can't keep a good battleship down. As our partners at Omelete are reporting, 26 years after Final Yamato was released, a new chapter is finally being written in one of the most popular space ...

Whoa, what a totally awesome way to kick off the New Year! The Japanese have been quietly developing a live-action adaptation of Leiji Matsumoto's anime series Space Battleship Yamato that first aired ...

Gamilas Supreme Commander Desslar unveils a trap that will destroy the Yamato: space mines. But these mines have a sinister function.. Dessler prepares another trap for the Yamato: an energy net that ...

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Last Hope 365, a new iOS and Android game based on the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 sci-fi anime series. Space Battleship ...