[ARC5] Yamato

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 23 Mar 2012 at 12:30, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:

> Truly impressive and fascinating engineering & technology for the day,

Well, from what I have seen, Japanese technology was what I would 
consider a very curious mix of up-to-date, and very outdated technology. For 
instance, one of the links provided on this list some time ago lead to a U.S. 
Army intelligence report on Japanese radar. Information included mentioned 
that their inter-deck cabling was extremely crude with no protection for that 
cabling, it simply being fed through holes in the deck. No "grommets" or 
strain reliefs. Some of the cabling was in quite large bundles too.

> Not terribly practical in time of war, though. The materials, man
> hours, and years of waiting that went into the Yamato only to have her
> sitting on the bottom within a few hours of being attacked could've
> been put to far better use.

Agreed. Germany did much the same thing. All of that worked to our benefit 
though.

> There was a sister ship to the Yamato too, sent to the bottom in one
> of the post war atomic tests, IIRC. Can't recall the name.

Wasn't that the "Musashi"?

Ken W7EKB