Design A-150 battleship

Artist's impression of an A-150-class battleship
Class overview
NameA-150
Builders
Operators Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded byYamato class
Succeeded byNone
Planned2
Completed0
Cancelled2
General characteristics
TypeBattleship
DisplacementApproximately 70,000 long tons (71,000 t)
Length263 m (862 ft 10 in) (est.)
Beam38.9 m (127 ft 7 in) (est.)
PropulsionUnknown
Armament
Armor
  • Possibly a 45.7 cm (18 in) side belt
  • Turret: 80 cm (31 in) (face); 29.5 cm (11.6 in) (roof)

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. These would have been the largest guns ever carried aboard a capital ship.

Design work on the A-150s began after the preceding Yamato class in 1938–1939 and was mostly finished by early 1941, when the Japanese began focusing on aircraft carriers and other smaller warships in preparation for the coming conflict. No A-150 would ever be laid down, and many details of the class' design were destroyed near the end of the war.


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