Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart ... Yamato was the lead ship of her class, constructed under extreme secrecy at the Kure Naval Arsenal ...

What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... of Yamato’s main guns, the largest in their class at ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe believed to have been used to fashion the main guns of Japan's mighty World War II battleship Yamato was in danger of becoming a rusting relic until a ...