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91,000 tons: Japan designed a battleship even bigger than the Yamato, with 20-inch guns. It never built a single one
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed ...
The IJN ordered five ships of the Yamato class, but only Musashi and its elder sister were completed as intended. Shinano, the third sister, was completed as an aircraft carrier support vessel. Japan ...
Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.
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