Yamato Alternatives
The Four Yamato class battleships are cancelled. Your job is to take the 206,900 standard tonnnage that was used historically on Yamato, Musashi, Shinano, and #111, and use it to design ships that you...
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Just a quick thought... NOT cheating & using hindsight to say "BBs were a waste & Japan needed as many CVs as it could possibly build". 4 BBs 40,000 tons 3 triple 41 cm (16.1") 10 twin 12.7...
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The sole purpose of a battleship is to slug it out with enemy BBs in a battle line. The most likely enemy I (Imperial Japan) am expected to encounter in the foreseeable future is the US which has many...
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Personally, I would like to increase the number of fleet carriers to ten. So starting in 1937, I would lay down Taiho and one of her sisters, and follow up with laying down two more in 1938. The first...
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I also forgot to mention, the Agano class would be cancelled in favor of the 4xCLs proposed above, but the same tonnage used on those ships would be used on Agano class CVL conversions, as shown below...
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I'd go for a large force of submarines with which to interdict American supply lines across the Pacific. Sink the supply ships and the USN will be restricted in its operations. I therefore propse...
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4 "Yamato" = c. 520 million yen 80 B1 subs = c.1040 million yen
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Japan already had a large and capable submarine force, they just mis-used it by deployed blockade lines aimed at intercepting enemy warships, instead of sending them after American shipping to their...
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"Saved tonnage" is an irrelevant concept. The only thing that matters is production capacity, in this case building slips, as well as the capability to produce weaponry and armour. As for more...
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My suggestion is as always: Japan already had ten battleships, so building new ones was a waist of resources and buildingcapacity. Dropping all BB and BC production and replacing it by more...
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Use the building slips and metal and gun works to construct nothing but 200 DEs, building them at a rate of 10 per a slip per a year starting in 1936. By the time the war starts in '41 you would have...
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Seems a bit onesided to focus only on one specific design of escort. It will not likely result in a multirole navy, even if considering it was added in place of the Yamato's only to all the...
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Yamato, Imperial Japan Battleship laid down 1937 Displacement: 33,166 t light; 34,562 t standard; 38,643 t normal; 41,908 t full load Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught 704.50 ft /...
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Interesting ship, Desron. My plan for a Yamato alternative is: - scrap fuglies, build 6 4x2x14" 28knt ships as replacement - scrap Kongos, build 4 4x2x14" 28knt ships as replacement The trick is : -...
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Interesting ship, Desron. I wondered if the IJN would have been better off building ships with coal fired steam turbine engines. Japan had access to ample supplies of coal in Manchuria while the...
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