The Yamato - Largest battleship in History (Behemoth)

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner

Script: Dejan Milivojevic
Edit: Daniel Turner

Artwork:
Daniel Turner
Filip Tacic

Narrator:

Chris Kane

Music Credit

Epic Battle Speech - Wayne Jones

Bus Da Blockbuster - Doug Maxwell/Media Right Production

Action Time - Biz Baz Studio

Sources and further reading:
Stiile, Mark, Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-1945, 2008

Sandler, Stanley, World War II in the Pacific, An Encyclopedia, 2001

Bishop, Chris, The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II, 1998

[radoslav]

Image if this ship survived the war and acted as a museum now, how great touristic attraction would it be

[mrdunk]

"Its like forging the perfect sword while everyone else was making machine guns"

[WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel]

Almost one year has passed since the publication of this really stylish video.
We are so proud being of part of it:)

[ngocduy]

German: Super heavy tank
Japanese: Super heavy battleship
Italian : Super heavy pizza

[kriegsmarinebismarck]

It's like the death star, it dominated everything, then got destroyed by tiny little X-Wings (or in this case, Hellcats and Corsairs)

[BigWillTheThrill]

This is why aircraft carriers became the center of fleets after WWII.

[mrmr_zoomie]

Japan: This ship is unsinkable!

Titanic: *laughter* good one kid.

[jonaselze]

There is also one interesting design flaw with that ship: Most of the AA defence wasn't able to get it's barrels lower than 10 Degrees, which made it possible for the Torpedo bombers to fly in at low altitude with relatively little resistance.

[childrenofatum]

Fun fact: Yamato was being ridiculed as “Hotel Yamato” by some locals, because while Yamato crews were treated elites and the ship housed all the luxury battleship could afford then, all she did was just swaggering around within the heavily guarded bay of Kure under the name of “top secret weapon”.

[gigachadicuspriminicus]

“It was made to kill 10 ships at once’s So we send plane’s.”

[mrwolfewood]

I think they should've mentioned that during Operation Ten-Go, the original plan was to purposely beach the Yamato for use as basically on off-shore unsinkable bunker. That reason is way the Yamato was targeted so hard: sink it before it couldn't be sunk.

[jaymuzquiz]

The Yamato was recovered and retro fitted into a spaceship called the Argo and is now equipped with the Wave Motion engine.

[drained]

When a single cannon weights more than your battleships:
Run.

[fxz]

Suggestions to do topics:
. The German V-3 super canon (WW2)
. The V1 and V2 Rocket (WW2)
. Hitler during WW1
. South east Asia invasion (WW2)
. kamikaze

[kav]

Yamato: sinks a US carrier
This enraged the aircraft who punished them severely

[juciefruut]

5:19
Him: “FATE”

Me: “Don’t cry... Don’t cry!”

[justsomeguywithasurprisede]

Yamato: "I'm unsinkable!"

*Bismarck, Titanic: **_Haha, you always make us laugh kid.._*

[himlamwong]

In 2199 it became space battleship yamato

[ZVelzy]

Even noticing that the Yamato and Musashi battleships were that of little use in the war the Americans still feared their power and capability of what they COULD do. It was proved when the Yamato blasted the US carrier from 20 miles out; they simply didn't want to take the chance of any surface vessels fighting the Yamato so damn near the WHOLE carrier fleet dove upon the ship without mercy.

[giotis_pantel]

Fan fact Yamato (γαμάτο), literally means "fucking awesome" in greek 😂