IJN battleship Musashi 🇯🇵 Musashi (武蔵), named after the former Japanese province, was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. ⚓️ The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) main guns. Their secondary armament consisted of four 155-millimetre (6.1 in) triple-gun t

Japanese battleship Musashi 🇯🇵 Built at Nagasaki, Japan, Musashi was commissioned in August 1942. The sister ship to Yamato was 862 feet long and had a crew of 2,500 sailors. Initially assigned to the Central Pacific to thwart an American offensive, she later participated against the Allied landings of the Marshall Islands. 🌏 On March 29, 1944, she was torpedoed by USS Tunny (SS-282). Repaired in Japan, her anti-aircraft was increased. In June 1944, Musashi took part in the Battle of the Phil

Rob Kraft and his team are hunting for Musashi, the biggest battleship ever built and considered unsinkable by the Japanese. How did the U.S. Navy sink this "indestructible" ship? And why did it end up in 10,000 pieces on the sea floor? Watch Lost Ships of WW2 on Sundays at 8pm on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK