Japanese 'dream project' battleships and never built battleships

[Tzoli]

Did any Japanese design proposals feature 4-gun turrets?

There were also Kaneda's 1919 design and the only one to feature the 48cm test gun:
https://www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/Hidetaro-Kaneda-Battleship-Design-1199432431

 

[Julio Garay Terrazas]

I found this true Japanese warships page. This is the section dedicated to battleships, it may have information we don't know about...
https://japanese-warship.com/battleship/battleship/

And it has a very extensive section of books and reference websites:
https://japanese-warship.com/reference/

 

[sgeorges4]

hello, I got plans to get the fujimi super yamato (with a shinano), are all super yamato illustration speculative if no original drawing showing its AA placement exist?
thanks for your answers!

 

[Tzoli]

hello, I got plans to get the fujimi super yamato (with a shinano), are all super yamato illustration speculative if no original drawing showing its AA placement exist?
thanks for your answers!

There are no official drawings founds so far about the A-150 class

 

[sgeorges4]

so everyone is speculating what they look like

 

[Tzoli]

That is the case based on a number of sources from an upgunned Yamato design to a 100.000ton variant

 

[HAzy]

- oww, not the 100,000-ton variant first?? i read that it's from 3xIII, then 4xII with 85,000 tons, then the cheap one 3xII using the Yamato hull?..
- i think i remember a proposal of five Yamatos to be up-gunned too (i see that from a certain timeline picture, but i can find where it is)..
- and that's not including the four 6th Circle Naval Program BB as well..

 

[Tzoli]

- oww, not the 100,000-ton variant first?? i read that it's from 3xIII, then 4xII with 85,000 tons, then the cheap one 3xII using the Yamato hull?..
- i think i remember a proposal of five Yamatos to be up-gunned too (i see that from a certain timeline picture, but i can find where it is)..
- and that's not including the four 6th Circle Naval Program BB as well..

Yes, five Yamatos were considered:
No.1 - Yamato
No.2 - Musashi
No.110 - Shinano
No.111
No.797

The two Super Yamatos were hull number
No.798
No.799

 

[sgeorges4]

Hello, I got the full hull variant of the fujimi super yamato, so the AA and secondary guns are speculative and from what I read, the design went from 4 turrets to 3

 

[SCAT-15F]

Hello, I got the full hull variant of the fujimi super yamato, so the AA and secondary guns are speculative and from what I read, the design went from 4 turrets to 3

I've thought about getting that model and doing an Iowa-class style modernization. Swap out the secondary and tertiary batteries for AK130's and OTO Malera 76mm, add a whole bunch of VLS, Goalkeeper and RAM CIWS, lengthen the 20" gun barrels from 45 to 52 caliber, and add on SPY-1D panels as well.