The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: Following Japan’s withdrawal from the Washington Naval Treaty in 1934, it began constructing the Yamato-class battleships to counter the U.S. Navy’s numerical ...

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..

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 ...

The Montana-class represents the U.S. Navy battleships that never sailed. Authorized in 1940 as America’s answer to Japan’s ...

The Azur Lane Japanese 5th Anniversary live stream revealed a new major event that will star the second Yamato-class battleship, IJN Musashi. It will run for three weeks from September 15 to October 5 ...