Designing the Yamato - What do you mean almost yet another Nelson type?

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Today we take a look at the design process that birthed the largest battleships to sail the seas, the Yamato class.

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Sources:
Warship - Volume VII
The Yamato Class and Subsequent Planning - Lengerer & Ahlberg
Battleship Tosa Demolition Tests to the Modified Yamato Design - Lengerer & Ahlberg
Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II - Garzke and Dulin

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - Background and Theory
00:08:29 - The Minds Behind the Ships
00:12:54 - The First Attempts
00:16:32 - Design A-140
00:28:18 - The Final Stretch

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