The modernized Yamato

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Re: The modernized Yamato

#41 Post by battleship lover »

Since fuel is such a problem for the ship I'm thinking of making the ship nuclear.
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#42 Post by erik_t »

(rolls eyes)

Yes, I bet you are. It would be cheaper and easier by an order of magnitude to remove the bell, scrap the ship, build a new one underneath, and lower the bell back on.
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#43 Post by battleship lover »

Yes I understand that you have to pull the whole ship apart but wont that greatly help the nation in a time of war?
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#44 Post by Rodondo »

Not really, think of the an power, time and cost, Japan didn't really have any of those by the time their nuclear program was even relatively working. Frankly I think the effort would have been easier just to build another Unryo Carrier or convert Yamato or Musashi along the lines of Shinano
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#45 Post by erik_t »

battleship lover wrote:Yes I understand that you have to pull the whole ship apart but wont that greatly help the nation in a time of war?
No, pulling the whole ship apart would not greatly help the nation in time of war...

FFS, the USN had eight different dino-fueled carriers of classes almost identical to those which later shipped nuclear weapons, with no real deck armor to cut through, with the reactors already designed, and never in a hundred million fucking years did anyone even semi-seriously suggest converting them to nuclear power.
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#46 Post by Colosseum »

It's fair to say that you can't just add nuclear power to the Yamato. Because, reasons.

I would suggest just doing an Iowa-style refit and being done with it.
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#47 Post by battleship lover »

okay okay geez I'll leave power source as is.
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#48 Post by heuhen »

Swering. Don't get me started.... I'm from a place in Norway, know for it... Interesting language!
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Re: The modernized Yamato

#49 Post by apdsmith »

Hi Battleship lover,

One thing I'd suggest for your refit is to take another look at the bridge structure - IJN bridge structures evolved to the point that they did in an attempt to provide good spotting positions for optical equipment - by anything even approaching current date you'll find that taken care of by LLTV (low-light TV) \ IR \ EO systems - with most of the air spotting taken care of by radars, which the '40s superstructure isn't shaped to allow optimum placement for.

Were I doing the refit, I'd look at cutting back and replacing a lot of the stuff from the conning tower up (and that's just because I'm lazy and wouldn't bother to cut the armour back).

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Re: The modernized Yamato

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