FUTABASHA 3D CG IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY BATTLESHIPS 1941-45 WW2 IJN YAMATO FUSO ISE NAGATO KONGO

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INTRODUCTION (JAPANESE NAVAL STRATEGY AND THE CULT OF THE BATTLESHIP, THE ROLE OF THE BATTLESHIPS, JAPANESE BATTLESHIP DEVELOPMENT)

WEAPONS (MAIN BATTERY 14-INCH/45 41ST YEAR TYPE (1908), 16.1-INCH/45 3RD YEAR TYPE (1914), 18.1-INCH/45 TYPE 94; SECONDARY ARMAMENT 6-INCH/50 41ST YEAR (1908), 5.51-INCH/50 3RD YEAR (1914), 6.1-INCH/60 3RD YEAR (1914); ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS 5-INCH/40 TYPE 89 (1929), 25mm TYPE 96 (1936)

RADAR

KONGO CLASS IJN KONGO, IJN HIEI, IJN KIRISHIMA, IJN HARUNA (DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, ARMAMENT, SERVICE MODIFICATION, WARTIME SERVICE, DISPLACEMENT, DIMEMSIONS, SPEED AND CREW)

FUSO CLASS IJN FUSÔ (1914) - SUNK OCTOBER 1944 IN BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF, IJN YAMASHIRO (1915) - SUNK OCTOBER 1944 IN BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF  (DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, ARMAMENT, SERVICE MODIFICATION, WARTIME SERVICE, DISPLACEMENT, DIMEMSIONS, SPEED AND CREW)

ISE CLASS IJN ISE - BOMBED 1945, REFLOATED, BU, IJN HYÛGA - BOMBED 1945, REFLOATED (DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, ARMAMENT, SERVICE MODIFICATION, WARTIME SERVICE, DISPLACEMENT, DIMEMSIONS, SPEED AND CREW)

NAGATO CLASS IJN MUTSU - BLEW UP IN HARBOR (MAGAZINE EXPLOSION?) 1943, IJN NAGATO - SUNK FOLLOWING BIKINI ATOMIC EXPERIMENTS 1946 (DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, ARMAMENT, SERVICE MODIFICATION, WARTIME SERVICE, DISPLACEMENT, DIMEMSIONS, SPEED AND CREW)