The New Japanese "Destroyer"

[AK-103 Dude]

Neat trick that. I could see being used in a support role and it is a rather unorthodox way of getting a heli carrier. The superstructure does have a few surfaces that are sloped to refract radar kinda like the DDX was supposed to. Our littoral combat ships are the same way. Japan has a first rate navy within the confines of the asian theater. China is growing as a threat to their shipping lanes and already has occupied some of the Spratly islands. BTW the f-35 is a chicken. Nobody wants it. Europe is going for the eurofighter and asia isn't biting either. China stole almost the whole development data from lockheed martin.

[CINDERS]

I think but may be wrong arent Russians building a twin hulled carrier capable of having a sub suface between the twin hulls to re arm etc bad tactics really as you are gonna be stationary 2 targets for the price of one sorta rings like the Milch cows of WW II easy pickings for coastal command.
I have a book on the Yamato big big battleship 18" guns and from the grey matter I think her magazines were protected by 37"of armour took allot to sink her and the sister Mushashi @ 19 torpedoes for the Yamato and a few bombs for good measure.
Some say the Iowa class guns were better that the 18's but I cannot remember either ships coming to grips with an Iowa class would have been an interesting stoush though

Heres some duff on her;
AP projie weight 1,460 kg Max Range 42,050m
HE - 1,360
Total turret weight with ammo 2,774 tonnes stowed 60 projectiles in the turret rotating structure (20 per gun)
Rifling grooves in barrel 72
Low elevation firing cycle times 28 seconds
45 degree firing cycle times 40 seconds
Total weight in trial condition 70,209 tonnes

And some thing totaly left field to show how exact the Japanese were it took 7,507,536 welding electrodes to build her

Source - The Battleship YAMATO By Janusz Skulski

[Aragorn243]

The Yamato would probably easily sink two Iowa's in a gun battle The Iowa's were not built to counter the Yamato's. The last class to be laid out, the Montanas, were. They had four triple 16 inch turrets, were longer, faster and more heavily armored. They would have displace 71,000 tons which was just slightly less than the Yamato. The Iowa's weighed in at 45,000 tons

The Japanese knew their stuff in naval gunnery. Probably the best in the war. They kicked our asses many times. There was a third ship in the class, the Shinano which was competed as an aircraft carrier. She was sunk by a submarine while moving to another base. She was not completed, watertight doors were missing, pumps were working but crew not trained in their operation. 4 torpedoes did her in. She did not have all the armor the battleships did weighing in at a mere 69,000 tons. They stopped adding it when the conversion began.

[rayg]

I think but may be wrong arent Russians building a twin hulled carrier capable of having a sub suface between the twin hulls to re arm etc bad tactics really as you are gonna be stationary 2 targets for the price of one sorta rings like the Milch cows of WW II easy pickings for coastal command.
I have a book on the Yamato big big battleship 18" guns and from the grey matter I think her magazines were protected by 37"of armour took allot to sink her and the sister Mushashi @ 19 torpedoes for the Yamato and a few bombs for good measure.
Some say the Iowa class guns were better that the 18's but I cannot remember either ships coming to grips with an Iowa class would have been an interesting stoush though

Heres some duff on her;
AP projie weight 1,460 kg Max Range 42,050m
HE - 1,360
Total turret weight with ammo 2,774 tonnes stowed 60 projectiles in the turret rotating structure (20 per gun)
Rifling grooves in barrel 72
Low elevation firing cycle times 28 seconds
45 degree firing cycle times 40 seconds
Total weight in trial condition 70,209 tonnes

And some thing totaly left field to show how exact the Japanese were it took 7,507,536 welding electrodes to build her

Source - The Battleship YAMATO By Janusz Skulski

And the US couldn't even make one of those 16" guns today, Ray