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Originally Posted by Etienne
My personnal theory is that the Yamato exists solely to suck up valuable American torpedo.
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Torpedo sponge?
I've never been able to figure out why the Japanese went through the trouble to build the thing. During all the night surface battles in the Solomons from 1942-43 in which the lesser ships of the IJN bled and died, the Yamato just sat at anchor up in Truk acting as a very expensive HQ ship. Apparently too precious to soil in a barfight.