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Ship number 798
Ship number 798 was to be the most powerful battleship in the world. It was the first Super Yamato-class ship (A-150), but due to the changing war situation, the Japanese abandoned this project. The keel was never laid, but one or two 510mm guns were produced at the Naval Arsenal in Kure to be used by the Super Yamato-class ships.
History
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), after withdrawing from the Second London Conference in 1936, began designing and building new ships, which according to the Japanese “Doctrine of Decisive Battle” (艦隊決戦). They were to be faster and more heavily armed than the U.S. Navy, which were to destroy America’s main fleet, just as in 1905 the Japanese destroyed the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima.For this purpose, the 4. The Naval Armament Reinforcement Program, which aimed to build 80 new ships for the IJN, including 4 powerful Yamato-class battleships. In 1939, Japanese intelligence reported that the U.S. Navy was planning to build new warships that would be armed with 18-inch guns. The Japanese knew that the American 18-inch guns would be a formidable threat to the Yamato-class ships. It was decided in 1939 that an even more powerful ship than the Yamato was needed. Work on the design of the new battleship began in 1939. To facilitate the design work, the design was based on a Yamato-class ship. The Super Yamato-class ships were to have powerful 510mm guns and a large number of smaller-caliber guns.Plans for the construction of the ships were included in the 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Programme of 1941. Work on 510 mm guns for ships of this class had already begun. The first gun was ready at the end of 1941. Due to the huge weight of the shell (over 2 tons with the propelling charge), work began on a special autoloader and turrets for the Super Yamato.Sources say that the ship could have had two different configurations of size and equipment. All of them are certain that the Super Yamato was supposed to have three double towers equipped with 510mm guns. The design work was completed in early 1941, and the keel for 798 was to be laid in 1942 at the Yokosuka Naval Shipyard. The second ship, number 799, was to be built at the Kure Naval Shipyard.These ships were supposed to be ready in 1946-47, but due to the defeat at Midway, the Japanese Navy needed aircraft carriers and support ships, so plans to build Super Yamato ships were abandoned.At the end of the war, due to the lack of steel, the prototype 510mm guns were melted down to steel mills, and the ship plans were destroyed. From an economic point of view, Japan was neither able to build such powerful ships nor to match the US economy.
Construction description
The standard displacement of the A-150 project battleship with six 510 mm guns was 64,000 tons (according to other sources – 72,000 tons). length of the waterline - 262 meters; maximum width – 38.9 meters, which corresponded to the Yamato-class battleships. The draught at the standard displacement of 10.4 meters also corresponded to the Yamato class. The power plant consisted of 12x boilers and 4x Kanpon turbines with a total output of 150,000 hp. The design speed is 27 knots, fuel capacity 6400 tons, cruise range 7200 miles at a speed of 16 knots.
There is also a theory that Super Yamato was supposed to have 8 510 mm guns and a displacement of about 100,000 tons, but from a realistic and practical point of view, such a ship would be very difficult logistically to build and supply.
Armament
510mm/45 (20.1") Type 98
Main artillery of ship number 798. Although it is called the Type 98, it is only a guess because the Japanese simply called it A Gun (拳銃) for secrecy. These were enlarged Type 94 guns from the battleship Yamato. A single gun with a breech weighed 223.4 tons. A single turret weighed 2,736 tons, which was only 36 tons more than the turret of the Yamato-class ship. The anti-tank shells for this gun weighed about 2,000 kg, and with a propelling charge 2,500 kg.
- Gun characteristics:
- Gun Weight: 223.4 tons (227 mt) with breech mechanism
- Gun Length oa: 927.6 in (23.560 m)
- Bore Length: 900 in (22.840 m)
- Date Of Design: 1941
- Rate of fire: 1 - 1,5 - 2 rounds per minute
- Ammunition
APC
- Bursting Charge - 32kg
- Weight - 1950kg
- Speed - 780m/s
HE
- Bursting Charge: 84kg
- Weight: 1858kg
- Speed: 805m/s
- Mount/Turret Data
- Weight: 2736t
- Gun elevations: -5/+45 degrees
- Elevation rate: 10 degrees per second
- Train rate: 2,25 degrees per second
155 mm 15.5 cm/60 (6.1") 3rd Year Type
This gun was to be mounted exactly the same as in the Yamato-class ships.
100 mm 10 cm/65 (3.9") Type 98
They were to be mounted on the sides of the superstructure to strengthen the anti-aircraft defense.
25 mm/60 (1") Type 96
They were to be the main line of defense against aircraft. Arranged very much like in the battleship Yamato
13,2 mm Type 93
Another anti-aircraft weapon
13,2 mm Type 93
Armour
Ship number 798 was to have powerful armor for the spirit of reasons.
- To withstand hits from American ships
- In order to withstand their own broadside salvos, which were more powerful than those on the battleship Yamato.
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Engine room
- Main belt armor (waterline): 410 mm VH
- Main belt armor (underwater): 200-45 mm NVNC
- Deck armor (horizontal): 200 mm MNC
- Deck armor (inclined): 230 mm MNC
- Bulkhead (bottom): 100-50 mm CNC -
Ammo stowage
- Main belt armor (waterline): 410 mm VH
- Main belt armor (underwater): 200-75 mm NVNC
- Magazine bottom armor: 80-50 CNC
- Deck armor (horizontal): 200 mm MNC
- Deck armor (inclined): 230 mm MNC
- Side splinter protection: 16 mm DS -
Main gun
- Barbette: upper 550 mm VH, lower 490 mm VH
- Turret front: 660 mm VH
- Turret side: 250 mm VH
- Turret back: 190 mm NVNC
- Turret roof: 270 mm VH -
Secondary gun
- Barbette: 25 mm DS + 50 mm CNC
- Turret: 25 mm HT -
Main steering room
- Roof: 200 mm MNC
- Side: 300-360 mm VC
- Bottom: 25 mm DS -
Auxiliary steering room
- Roof: 200 mm MNC
- Side: 250 mm VC - 300 mm VH
- Bottom: 20 mm DS -
Funnel
- Uptake: 380 mm MNC
- Some part of funnel: 50 mm CN
General characteristics
- Crew - 3345
- Standard displacement: 64,000 t
- Full-load displacement: 72,809 t
- Max length: 263.40 m
- Max width: 38.9 m
- Average draft at trial state: 10.4 m
- Main boiler: 12x Ro-Go Kampon boiler
- Main engine: 4x Kampon turbine
- Power: 153,553 SHP
- Speed: 27.46 kt
- Aircrafts: 6 seaplanes
Armament
- Main Artillery
- 3х2 - 510mm/45 (20.1") Type 98
- Secondary Armament
There are two variants of secondary armament that were supposed to be used on the 798 ship, I will present them below.
- First variant
- 2х3 - 155 mm 15.5 cm/60 (6.1") 3rd Year Type
- 12x2 - 100 mm 10 cm/65 (3.9") Type 98
- 52x3 - 25 mm/60 (1") Type 96
- 2х2 - 13,2 mm Type 93
- Second variant
- 14x2 - 100 mm 10 cm/65 (3.9") Type 98
- 52x3 - 25 mm/60 (1") Type 96
- 2х2 - 13,2 mm Type 93
- First variant
- Second variant
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- Equipment
- Type 21 air-surface radar
- Type 22 surface radar
- Type 13 air radar
- E27 radio detector
Summary
Super Yamato-class ship number 798, if the Japanese had fully completed it, would have been the most powerful battleship in History. In the game, if you were to add it, you would have to do a few things to prevent it from dominating naval battles. My suggestion is:
- A maximum of 1 ship per team at a time for Battle
- Powerful ships that will keep her in check (Montana-class ships, modernized Iowa, German super battleships, etc.)
- introduce it as an event ship and let you play with it by fighting, for example, bots like “Battelship Battel of Earth”
- You can also do the same as the Americans with Yamato-class ships, i.e. introduce aircraft strike groups to sink such ships, instead of 1 plane, you can give the player command over the wing of torpedo planes or dive bombers.
5.Introduce submarines that will hunt battleships (just like the Americans hunted down Japan’s most powerful aircraft carrier)
This ship was, as it turned out later, a blind road in the development of ships, because in the future the most important ships were aircraft carriers, not battleships.I know that a lot of people will be against this proposal, but this ship is a floating monster that even if it cost $250, I would buy it anyway. I encourage you to discuss in the comments and to share your own knowledge on this subject.
Finally, I apologize for the linguistic and logical errors because unfortunately English is not my main language and I had to use google translator.
Source
Design A-150 battleship - Wikipedia
超大和型戦艦 - Wikipedia
Japan 51 cm/45 (20.1") “A” Type 98 (?) - NavWeaps
Super Yamato-class Battleship, No.798 (A-150) - The Strongest Weapon of the Japanese Empire - Japan - War Thunder - Official Forum
Battleships the Size of Supercarriers? Imperial Japan’s Crazy Plan For a ‘Super-Yamato’ | The National Interest
Yamato class genesis – Warship Projects 1900-1950
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