Feature article about the development of the US Navy’s most powerful battleship class
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Development of the Nagato class
By TZoli Part I: The British Ancestry The design history of the Japanese Nagato class battleships, the world’s first and then fastest 16″/410mm gun armed battleships is long and only partially documented. The commonly held statement that the Nagato class is the first indeginiously designed Japanese Battleship or the first Battleship entirely designed by Yuzuru…