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The Kawachi class (河内型戦艦, Kawachi-gata senkan), Kawachi and Settsu, were a pair of dreadnought battleships ordered in the Navy's Warship Supplement Program after the Russo-Japanese War. [111] They were the IJN's first dreadnoughts and marked one of the first steps in achieving Japan's recently adopted Eight-Eight Fleet Program. [112]
Design A-150, [A] popularly known as the Super Yamato class, [B] was a planned class of battleships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.In keeping with longstanding Japanese naval strategy, the A-150s would have carried six 51-centimeter (20.1 in) guns to ensure their qualitative superiority over any other battleship they might face.
JDS Mirai (DDH-182) [1] is a fictional helicopter defense destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), created for the Japanese manga and anime series Zipang.The central point of the plot of the anime is that the modern warship Mirai is transported back sixty years through time to 1942 on the eve of the Battle of Midway.
Zipang (Japanese: ジパング, Hepburn: Jipangu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was serialized in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Morning from 2000 to 2009, with its chapters collected in forty-three tankōbon volumes.
The IJN considered a battle fleet of eight modern battleships and eight modern armored cruisers necessary for the defense of Japan, and the government adopted that policy in 1907. [1] This was the genesis of the Eight-Eight Fleet Program , the development of a cohesive battle line of 16 capital ships less than eight years old. [ 2 ]
HMS Victoria – British Royal Navy dreadnought, Britannic, 2000; HMS Viperess – British Royal Navy Victor-class destroyer, The Cruel Sea, 1953; The Wanderer – Captain Ron with Martin Short and Kurt Russell, 1992; USS Wayne – US Navy nuclear submarine in the TV movie Assault on the Wayne, 1971
Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class.Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow ...
The Kawachi class (河内型戦艦, Kawachi-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Both ships bombarded German fortifications at Qingdao during the siege of Qingdao in 1914, but saw no other combat in World War I .