<Hakkō Ichiu timeline> Yamato built with American cooperation but...

Yes I have been watching too much Kantai Collection and perhaps read too much of Asami's
Hakkō Ichiu, and a Youtube comment got me thinking abut this.

What if the close alliance and cooperation the US and Imperial Japan happened just like in the Timeline, and the project Yamato battleship got help and/or reshaped with American input. Using material, weapons, ammunition and design doctrine. And the Japanese Navy would be able to place orders for whatever American ships had ITTL 1940-1945 too.

BUT she wasn't finished and operational until after the WW2 was already over. She might get to sail off and fire her guns in anger here and their in support of regional conflicts, but would spend 2/3 of her service as the 'Yamato Building' the same way American sailors called USS John F Kennedy. The earliest time she would get to fire her gun would be 1951 in the Korean Incident, if it wasn't butterflied away in the said Timeline.

So provided that Yamato hasn't been butterflied away in the timeline, what kind of battleship she would be?
 
Africa peacekeeping is possible, though I am not so sure who could foot her fuel bills for the operation of that long distance. I don't even know if Yamato will fit through the Suez Canal.

On my own idea, I could think of a few incidents ITTL that could add to Yamato's reputation/infamy during peacetime.

- Belkap Pole becomes Yamato Pole. She becomes the ship that run into USS Belkap instead of JFK.

- It was her targeting drone, not the one from USS Wisconsin that the garrison surrendered to at the ITTL Falkland War. She might do the same in place of the Mighty Mo in the IITL Gulf War, whenere or wherever that maybe. The reason was the same though; surviving garrisons recognized the drone as the artillery spotter and surrendered before the second barrage hit.
 
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