Key Points and Summary - This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class battleships and Japan’s Yamato-class behemoths. -Designed as larger, better ...
Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire long enough to land decisive hits. Yamato carried the ...
Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.