It's just a ship named the Yamato. NOT the real one! It's still sunk North of Okinawa since April 07, 1945 Real one or at least the original is still down there on the bottom of the sea and it was MUCH bigger than the ship in that film! Here are some specs: Displacement: 65,027 tonnes (empty, including 21,266 tonnes of armor); 72,800 tonnes (estimated, full load) Length: 256 m (800.5 ft) water-line 263 m (862.5 ft) overall Beam: 36.9 m (121 ft) Draft: 11 m (36 ft) maximum Propulsion: ? 12 Kanpon boilers, driving 4 steam turbines ? 150,000 shp (110 MW) ? Four 3-bladed propellers, 6.0 m (19.7 ft) diameter Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h) Range: 11,500 km at 16 knots (30 km/h) Complement: 2,750 Armour: ? 650 mm on face of turrets ? 410 mm side armor, inclined 20 degrees ? 200 mm armored deck Armament: (1941) ? 9 × 46 cm (18.1 inch) (3×3) ? 12 × 15.5 cm (6.1 inch) (4×3) ? 12 × 12.7 cm (6×2) ? 24 × 25 mm AA (8×3) ? 4 × 13 mm AA (2×2) Armament: (1945) ? 9 × 46 cm (18.1 inch) (3×3) ? 6 × 15.5 cm (6.1 inch) (2×3) ? 24 × 12.7 cm (12×2) ? 162 × 25 mm AA (52×3, 6×1) ? 4 × 13 mm AA (2×2) Aircraft: 7, 2 catapults
I know she was immense. I know also there is a cult of 'lovers of Spaceship Yamato' in Japan. It is plain the thing in the film is not The Yamato, note the lack of a fighting top and the lack of smashed things due to bombs. I wanted to know what that thing was, where it was. We don't have many Japanese in this forum. Prolly in a county fair or something. there are visible cranes and such in the background, so maybe it is a county fair put on in a ship-building town. I love to use Japanese Hardware when I am playing harpoonII. They have a pretty good navy, still.
