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Ages ago (more like a decade or more...) I've found a mention on some naval sites and forums that even after the A-150 "Super" Yamato the Japanese considered building or designing battleships surpassing even the size of the A-150 type! This design was known as the 100.000ton "Mega" Yamato. To my knowledge only two data was available about this mysterious proposal:
Based on this two data, knowledge on the Yamato preliminaries, the Yamatos themselves and the possible A-150 variants, this is my interpretation of this massive battleship armed with the most modern weapons and equipment of the Imperial Japanese Navy!
Like on the previous A-150 series I've put a second 15,5m range finder aft in place of Yamato's 10m secondary rangefinder and enlarged the main rangefinder atop the bridge to 17meters! I've also further enlarged the main superstructure bridge and conning tower compared to the A-150's.
Sidenote: It isn't impossible that the 100.000ton design was another A-150 variant with large size heavy armour and many guns!
With this drawing I officially done drawing all the Proto-Yamato, Pre-Yamato, Yamato Prelimianries, Yamato variants and Post-Yamato designs I've started in March!
My design the following characteristics:
Dimensions: 280 (wl) 287 (oa) x 41 x 12m
Displacement: 95.000tons (standard), 105.000tons (full load)
Armour: 250mm Deck, 460mm Belt inclined at 20 degrees
Engines: 230.000shp, 4 shafts, Steam Turbines
Speed: 54km/h (29knots)
Range: 13.300km at 30km/h (7.200nm at 16knots)
Armaments:
4x3 51cm/45 Type 98 Cannons,
2x3 20m/50 Type 90 No.2 Guns,
16x2 12,7cm/50 Type 1 / Type 5 DP-AA guns,
44x2 40mm/60 Type 5 AA Guns,
12x21 12cm Type 5 AA Rockets
6x Seaplanes (Aichi E16A Paul and Mitsubishi F1M Pete planes)
Sensors:
Type 14 Air search radar (one set on top of the aft secondary rangefinder)
Type 21 Air search radars (six sets, one on each High angle range finder tower)
Type 22 Surface search radars (two sets, one on each side of the mainmast)
Type 23 Gunnery Control / air search radars (Modified sets of 20, one on each machine gun director)
Type 24 Air search / gunnery control radars (two sets, one on each arms of the main 17m rangefinder)
Type 32 Surface search radars (two sets, one on each side of the bridge superstructure in place of the 13mm AA MGs on the Yamatos)
Type 42 Searchlight control / gun laying radars (four sets, one on each side and above the 2nd and 6th pair of 12,7cm heavy AA gun turrets)
More info on the used radars can be found here:
www.combinedfleet.com/radar.ht…
pwencycl.kgbudge.com/R/a/Radar…
home.e01.itscom.net/ikasas/ind…
home.e01.itscom.net/ikasas/cat…
www.yokohamaradiomuseum.com/ra…
www17.big.or.jp/~father/aab/ki…
And some info on the weapons used:
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_20-…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_8-5…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_5-5…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_4cm-…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_12c…
A Displacement of 100.000tons and an armament of 51cm cannons!
Like on the previous A-150 series I've put a second 15,5m range finder aft in place of Yamato's 10m secondary rangefinder and enlarged the main rangefinder atop the bridge to 17meters! I've also further enlarged the main superstructure bridge and conning tower compared to the A-150's.
Sidenote: It isn't impossible that the 100.000ton design was another A-150 variant with large size heavy armour and many guns!
With this drawing I officially done drawing all the Proto-Yamato, Pre-Yamato, Yamato Prelimianries, Yamato variants and Post-Yamato designs I've started in March!
My design the following characteristics:
Dimensions: 280 (wl) 287 (oa) x 41 x 12m
Displacement: 95.000tons (standard), 105.000tons (full load)
Armour: 250mm Deck, 460mm Belt inclined at 20 degrees
Engines: 230.000shp, 4 shafts, Steam Turbines
Speed: 54km/h (29knots)
Range: 13.300km at 30km/h (7.200nm at 16knots)
Armaments:
4x3 51cm/45 Type 98 Cannons,
2x3 20m/50 Type 90 No.2 Guns,
16x2 12,7cm/50 Type 1 / Type 5 DP-AA guns,
44x2 40mm/60 Type 5 AA Guns,
12x21 12cm Type 5 AA Rockets
6x Seaplanes (Aichi E16A Paul and Mitsubishi F1M Pete planes)
Sensors:
Type 14 Air search radar (one set on top of the aft secondary rangefinder)
Type 21 Air search radars (six sets, one on each High angle range finder tower)
Type 22 Surface search radars (two sets, one on each side of the mainmast)
Type 23 Gunnery Control / air search radars (Modified sets of 20, one on each machine gun director)
Type 24 Air search / gunnery control radars (two sets, one on each arms of the main 17m rangefinder)
Type 32 Surface search radars (two sets, one on each side of the bridge superstructure in place of the 13mm AA MGs on the Yamatos)
Type 42 Searchlight control / gun laying radars (four sets, one on each side and above the 2nd and 6th pair of 12,7cm heavy AA gun turrets)
More info on the used radars can be found here:
www.combinedfleet.com/radar.ht…
pwencycl.kgbudge.com/R/a/Radar…
home.e01.itscom.net/ikasas/ind…
home.e01.itscom.net/ikasas/cat…
www.yokohamaradiomuseum.com/ra…
www17.big.or.jp/~father/aab/ki…
And some info on the weapons used:
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_20-…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_8-5…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_5-5…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_4cm-…
navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_12c…
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Basically the Japanese version of USS Montana