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Battleship: Ultimate Yamato

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For those who like BIG GUNS and LOTS OF EM!!
a 5 quad turreted Yamato Variant!

Edit: Added more 25mm AA Guns and fixed the pixels
Edit 2: Changed the colours, different and bigger superstructure (Larger Funnel) and the usual fixes

A More Gunned Version of this:
tzoli.deviantart.com/art/Battl…

The Simulation:

Echizen, Japanese A-150 class Battleship laid down 1937

Displacement:
87 697 t light; 92 670 t standard; 96 747 t normal; 100 009 t full load

Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
(954,31 ft / 935,04 ft) x 131,23 ft x (42,65 / 43,87 ft)
(290,87 m / 285,00 m) x 40,00 m x (13,00 / 13,37 m)

Armament:
20 - 18,11" / 460 mm 45,0 cal guns - 2 998,29lbs / 1 360,00kg shells, 80 per gun
Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts, 1939 Model
5 x 4-gun mounts on centreline ends, majority forward
3 raised mounts - superfiring
32 - 3,94" / 100,0 mm 65,0 cal guns - 28,66lbs / 13,00kg shells, 400 per gun
Anti-air guns in deck and hoist mounts, 1938 Model
8 x Twin mounts on sides, forward deck aft
4 raised mounts - superfiring
8 x Twin mounts on sides, aft deck forward
4 raised mounts - superfiring
192 - 0,98" / 25,0 mm 60,0 cal guns - 0,53lbs / 0,24kg shells, 3 000 per gun
Anti-air guns in deck mounts, 1937 Model
52 x Triple mounts on sides, evenly spread
10 raised mounts
12 x Triple mounts on sides, evenly spread
12 double raised mounts
Weight of broadside 60 985 lbs / 27 662 kg

Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 16,1" / 410 mm 603,51 ft / 183,95 m 19,03 ft / 5,80 m
Ends: Unarmoured
Upper: 7,87" / 200 mm 603,51 ft / 183,95 m 8,01 ft / 2,44 m
Main Belt covers 99 % of normal length
Main Belt inclined 20,00 degrees (positive = in)

- Torpedo Bulkhead - Additional damage containing bulkheads:
11,8" / 300 mm 603,51 ft / 183,95 m 41,24 ft / 12,57 m
Beam between torpedo bulkheads 118,11 ft / 36,00 m

- Hull void:
1,97" / 50 mm 544,62 ft / 166,00 m 32,81 ft / 10,00 m

- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 23,6" / 600 mm 7,87" / 200 mm 19,7" / 500 mm
3rd: 0,98" / 25 mm 0,98" / 25 mm 0,98" / 25 mm
4th: 0,39" / 10 mm 0,39" / 10 mm -

- Box over machinery & magazines:
9,06" / 230 mm

- Conning towers: Forward 19,69" / 500 mm, Aft 11,81" / 300 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,
Geared drive, 4 shafts, 163 820 shp / 122 210 Kw = 27,00 kts
Range 7 000nm at 16,00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 7 339 tons

Complement:
2 742 - 3 565

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
118 434 lbs / 53 721 Kg = 39,9 x 18,1 " / 460 mm shells or 27,0 torpedoes
Metacentric height 8,5 ft / 2,6 m
Roll period: 18,9 seconds

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has a flush deck,
an extended bulbous bow and a round stern
Length to Beam Ratio: 7,13 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 30,58 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 45 %
Ship tends to be wet forward

Ship space, strength and comments:
Waterplane Area: 93 744 Square feet or 8 709 Square metres
Structure weight / hull surface area: 305 lbs/sq ft or 1 490 Kg/sq metre
Excellent machinery, storage, compartmentation space
Excellent accommodation and workspace room
Image size
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very cool but Japan would probably not have the resources to build a ship like that but maybe Hitler would wanna build merging like that as he wanted to build the h class ships which were menat to house 16-20 inch guns on 4 turrets