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..

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 ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy had adopted the Kantai Kessen naval strategy before World War 2 even broke out. Based on the works of American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan, Japanese strategists ...

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 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 ...