The genesis of this type of battleships dates back to the early 1930s, when the command of the Japanese Navy, hoping for the Washington Treaty to expire soon (from 1922) and preparing for the war in the Pacific, decided to create the most powerful and best battleship in history, which would outclass their counterparts in the US Navy or Royal Navy, and keep its construction completely secret. Musashi was the second Yamato-class battleship. The main armament at the time of the launch was 9 460 mm guns in three turrets of three guns each, and the secondary armament was mainly 6 155 mm guns. The maximum speed of battleship Yamato was around 27-28 knots. The total length of the ship was 263 meters, width 36.9 meters, and a full displacement of 65,000 tons. Musashi was a Japanese battleship laid under the keel in 1938, launched in October 1940, and commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy in August 1942.
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