" IJN Shinano " Topic
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Tango01 | 17 Nov 2014 10:54 p.m. PST |
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Pete Melvin | 18 Nov 2014 3:44 a.m. PST |
That dudes water always looks more real than actual water. I'd love to know how he does it. |
Virtualscratchbuilder | 18 Nov 2014 6:49 a.m. PST |
I like the Super Yamato in the background too. |
skippy0001 | 18 Nov 2014 6:51 a.m. PST |
Highly inaccacurate…he didn't show four torpedo tracks zooming in on it.:) Great model!!! |
Tango01 | 18 Nov 2014 9:05 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
jgibbons | 18 Nov 2014 6:30 p.m. PST |
I had never heard of the Super Yamato class until now…. |
Cuchulainn | 19 Nov 2014 5:19 a.m. PST |
The Super Yamato was never built jgibbons, but if she had she would have dwarfed everything eles afloat as far as firepower was concerned. I can't remember of the top of my head the specs. of the ships (two were planned), except they were to mount 6 x 20.1" guns. |
OSchmidt | 20 Nov 2014 8:51 a.m. PST |
Chuchulainn is correct on all counts as to the Super-Yamato's |
Tango01 | 20 Nov 2014 11:35 a.m. PST |
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CampyF | 20 Nov 2014 3:34 p.m. PST |
Thanks for this. I had not seen a model of the Type A-150. Like the Montana's they would probably never have been completed before the end of the war. The full details of the ships were destroyed, so there is much that is conjecture. If my memory is correct, they would have been about the size of the Yamato, although the Yamato's emerged considerably larger than planned. I would expect the same of these. The Japanese program of giant warships was interesting. They would have had five of the largest battleships ever built. They had the largest main batteries. We, however, would have had seventeen new battleships total. Broadside of 168 sixteen inch guns. As Stalin said, quantity has a quality all of it's own. With the overwhelming number of US planes, the Japanese would have been hard put to keep spotter planes in the air to take advantage of the longer range of their guns, which was the original concept. |
Lion in the Stars | 22 Nov 2014 8:34 p.m. PST |
Another issue with the big guns (whether 18" or 20") was a much lower rate of fire. The Iowas (and Montanas) had at least 2x the rate of fire, so actually threw a heavier broadside (per the Seapower charts). |
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