Design A-150 battleship
Design A-150 was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The design called for a main battery of six 45-caliber 51-caliber guns in three twin turrets. Many details of the class’ design were destroyed near the end of the war, along with most of the other documentation relating to the class.
About Design A-150 battleship in brief
Design A-150 was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy. They were designed to be qualitatively superior to battleships that might be faced in battle, such as those from the United States or Great Britain. As part of this, the class would have been armed with six 51-centimeter guns, the largest weapons carried aboard any warship in the world. Design work on the A- 150s began after the preceding Yamato class in 1938–1939 and was mostly finished by early 1941, when the Japanese began focusing on aircraft carriers and other smaller warships in preparation for the coming conflict. Many details of the class’ design were destroyed near the end of the war, along with most of the other documentation relating to the class.
The design called for a main battery of six 45-caliber 51-caliber guns in three twin turrets. The belt armor was probably going to be 45. 7 centimetres thick, but steel mills in Japan were incapable of manufacturing it. Instead the same total thickness of armor was used, despite its reduced effectiveness as compared to a single layer of the same thickness. The class would also have been fitted to a capital ship, dwarfing the capitaling the 46-centimeters guns mounted on the Yamato class. By 1941, one—possibly two—of the 51- centimeter guns were being constructed at the Kure Arsenal, and detailed designs of their turrets were drawn up.
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