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BATTLESHIP YAMATO

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Description

The Japanese battleship Yamato was the lead ship of her class and, alongside her sister ship Musashi, remains the largest and heaviest armored battleship ever constructed. Built in extreme secrecy by the Kure Naval Arsenal for the Imperial Japanese Navy, she was commissioned in December 1941, just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Technical Specifications

FormatOBJ, FBX, BLENDER, LWO, COLLADA, ALEMBIC
Compatibility3ds Max, Blender, Cinema4D, Houdini, Lightwave, Maya, Unity, Unreal Engine, Other
RiggedNo
GeometryPolygon mesh
Polygons Number4.3 milions
TexturesNo
UV MappingNo

Historical Background

Designed to engage multiple enemy capital ships at once, the Yamato spent much of her career serving as the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Due to fuel shortages and Japan's shifting strategy toward naval aviation, her surface combat exposure was limited. Her major surface action occurred in October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (specifically the Battle off Samar), where she engaged American escort carriers and destroyers.
On April 7, 1945, during Operation Ten-Go, the Yamato was sent on a one-way kamikaze mission to defend Okinawa. Without air cover, she was swarmed by hundreds of U.S. Navy carrier-borne aircraft southwest of Kyushu. After taking massive bomb and torpedo hits, the ship capsized, causing a monumental magazine explosion. Of her 3,352 crew members, only 297 survived. Her wreckage was eventually discovered in 1985.

Technical Specifications:
• Displacement: ~65,000 long tons standard; 72,000–72,810 tonnes fully loaded.
• Dimensions: Length of 863 feet (263 meters) and a beam of 38.9 meters.
• Main Armament: Nine 46 cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 guns mounted in three triple turrets. These were the largest guns ever fitted to a warship, capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 22 miles.
• Armor: Over 22,800 tons of armor (roughly 30% of her total displacement), featuring a 410 mm waterline belt and up to 650 mm on the turret faces.
• Propulsion: Turbine engines producing 150,000 shaft horsepower, reaching a top speed of 27 knots.

Additional Information

The model was created based on blueprints, photos and historical documentation. It was created with precision in detail and in real units of measurement to be a faithful digital reproduction of the original.
GEOMETRY ONLY - No textures, no materials, no UV maps
The model is divided into 171 object layers
All the geometry is made of tris and quads polys only
All guns, turrets, lights, rangefinders are included and in the right position.
No setup included - if you need to rotate turrets and guns you need to create simple setups with your 3D software.
Some geometry (e.g. the anchor chains segments) needs to be subdivided for close views.
Surfaces are clearly named to help you assign materials.
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