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?
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?