The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

the Yamato class’ armament was superior to that of the U.S. Navy’s battleships. These ships were also well designed to withstand aerial bombardment, featuring extremely thick main armor decks ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster ... it was notable that the vaunted battleships, with their massive displacements, heavy armor, and long-range weapons, were not the ships that ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... of Yamato’s main guns, the largest in their class at ...

A Historical Icon Immortalized The original Japanese Battleship Yamato was a revolutionary naval vessel launched in 1940. As the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleships, she boasted unparalleled ...

About 35 large items--including torpedoes, mines, propellers, the sub-guns of the battleship Mutsu and the large testing equipment used when the Yamato was being built--will be displayed at the ...