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Yamato near the end of her fitting out, 20 September 1941 [14] Yamato ' s main battery consisted of nine 45-caliber 46-centimetre (18.1 in) Type 94 guns—the largest ever fitted to a warship, [15] although the shells were not as heavy as those fired by the British 18-inch naval guns of World War I.
Yamato as she appeared c. 1945 (specific configuration from 7 April 1945) In the original design, the Yamato class' secondary armament comprised twelve 15.5 cm/60 Type 3 guns mounted in four 3-gun turrets (one forward, two amidships, one aft), [53] and twelve 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 guns in six double turrets (three on each side amidships). [53]
The 46 cm (18.1 in) 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval rifle was a wire-wound gun.Mounted in three 3-gun turrets (nine per ship), they served as the main armament of the two Yamato-class battleships that were in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Based on the bearing and the angle of fall, it is far more likely that they were 18.1-inch (46 cm) shells fired by Yamato from a range of 10.029 nmi (11.541 mi; 18.574 km), as, moments later, three 6.1-inch (155 mm) shells from Yamato struck Johnston ' s bridge, causing numerous casualties and severing the fingers of Commander Evans's left hand ...
A 46 cm (18 in) Sanshiki shell displayed at the Yamato Museum The explosion of a 46 cm (18 in) San Shikidan incendiary anti-aircraft shell. San-shiki-dan (三式弾, "Type 3 shell") was a World War II-era combined shrapnel and incendiary anti-aircraft round used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. They were supposedly referred to as Beehive rounds ...
Various shells, shell replicas, and shell elements from IJN warships, ranging from the 460 mm (18 in) to the 203 mm (8.0 in) calibers, and of the armor-piercing, high-explosive, and anti-aircraft types. 1:1 replica of a 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval gun breech. 1:1 replica of one of the battleship Kongō's boilers. Chibi Yamato replica
However, at 0730, at 20,300 yards (18,600 m), battleship Yamato engaged a US "cruiser" and fired a single full nine gun broadside. Suddenly, three 18.1-inch (46 cm) shells smashed into Johnston. [42] [43] Seconds later, three 6.1-inch (155 mm) shells out of six fired from Yamato ' s secondary battery made their mark
The BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun was a breech-loading naval rifle used by the Royal Navy during World War I.It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell.