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Yamato Battleship's Armor Plate Shows What Damage Armor Piercing Shells Can Do (6 pics)

Posted in NSFW 4 May 2016 16751 5

The Yamato-class ships were battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy constructed and operated during World War II. They had some serious armor. But this hole is the result of ballistic testing that was done at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgreen showing what a serious damage 16″ shells can do.

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Member 4 year s ago

But it's not the Yamotao.

Lavonia 3 year s ago

What part of Yamato-class ship are you having trouble to comprehend?

Delilah 2 year s ago

So did the Naval Proving Ground just pop over to the Imperial Japanese Navy and say "can we please have a sample of your Yamato Class armor to test"? Obviously not fired from a ship. How was the test done?

Wilda 2 month s ago

Delilah, they most likely have taken spare armor belts designed for the Yamato class off from where it was built like for example threes still armor plating at the the Hamburg dry dock from Bismarck.

Nels 1 year ago

It was a gun turret face plate off the 3rd ship that was converted to an aircraft carrier, the IJN Shinano. Captured after the end of WWII and shipped to America for ballistics testing.