Almighty Fuso

[Wunderwaffen1945]

This is a little bit different, because I used to make this topics mostly about German ships but I'm going to make this one different and about a ship that really impressed me (what is not easy) in battlestations..............Fuso class Japan battleships (Dreadnought) <3

 

I played with it almost always and it often replaced Yamato....don't get me wrong, it is awesome ship but still.......Fuso was more fun to play, and with that instant reloader perk..... :Smile_playing:

http://gcg8pa.blu.li...KTnjvvWQ/扶桑.png

 

Displacement: 29,330 long tons (29,800 t) (standard)

Length: 202.7 m (665 ft 0 in)

Beam: 28.7 m (94 ft 2 in)

Draught: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)

Installed power: 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)

24 × water-tube boilers

Propulsion: 4 shafts

2 × steam turbine sets

Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)

Range: 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)

Complement: 1,193

Armament:

6 × 2 - 356 mm guns (14 inch)

16 × 1 - 152 mm guns

5 × 1 - 76 mm AA guns

6 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes

Armor:

Waterline belt: 305–102 mm (12–4 in)

Deck: 51 mm (2 in)

Gun turrets: 279 mm (11.0 in)

Barbettes: 305 mm (12 in)

Conning tower: 351 mm (13.8 in)

Bulkheads: 305–102 mm (12–4 in)

 

General characteristics (1944) "A new battleship"

Displacement: 34,700 long tons (35,300 t)

Length: 210.3 m (690 ft 0 in)

Beam: 33.1 m (108 ft 7 in)

Installed power: 75,000 shp (56,000 kW)

6 × water-tube boilers

Propulsion: 4 × steam turbines

Speed: 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h; 28.2 mph)

Range: 11,800 nmi (21,900 km; 13,600 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)

Complement: 1,900

Sensors and processing systems: 1 × Type 21 air search radar

1 × Type 13 early warning radar

1 × Type 22 surface search radar

Armament:

6 × 2 - 356 mm guns (14 inch)

14 × 1 - 152 mm guns

4 × 2 - 127 mm (5 in) dual-purpose guns

95 × 25 mm (1 in) AA guns

 

This ship really shows as real combination of some real firepower with preaty high number of guns for it's age, decent speed with around 25 knots max, and good armor.....bit better than one on Iowa except turrents....

That ship really surprised me with all it's capabilities in game and outside in some books I read recently......It's also another ship destroyed almost just with airplanes, Fuso and Yamashiro as only representatives of it's class were succeeded by "legendary" Ise class.... :Smile_glasses:

[Tpond]

Cool but i also found this on the Fuso on here

 

http://forum.worldof...attleship-fuso/

 

Seems Tanz has many on here

[Wunderwaffen1945]

Hah, I probably missed it....

[Krieg]

Just the name, Fuso, sounds cool all in itself...  :Smile_smile:

[mrlazorz]

My favorite ship.

 

I will certainly play it.

[Azumazi]

The Fuso design was done as such out of the fear of losing guns in a battle. Their original fear was that from WW1 and in the Russo-Japanese War, guns spread out into more turrets was better than pushing them into a single turret if that turret got knocked out. With 6 turrets of 2 guns each, they could lose 2 turrets and still have 8 guns to lay fire on an enemy ship. Also unlike the Ise, they were designed to be evenly spread out across the ship.

 

This link here gives you a nice 1/250 model that has a cut away of the inside of the ship, nicely done as well.

 

http://www.modelship...d/jd-index.html

[NGTM_1R]

Yamashiro was honestly the one WW2 battleship that actually managed to justify everyone's expectations of how much damage a battleship could absorb in a single line of battle action, absorbing large-caliber and medium-caliber fire from multiple enemy ships without flinching though with noticeable lack of success in striking back.

 

Fuso on the other hand went down to what's usually believed to be a single torpedo hit.

[Wunderwaffen1945]

NGTM_1R, on 12 February 2013 - 05:11 AM, said:

Yamashiro was honestly the one WW2 battleship that actually managed to justify everyone's expectations of how much damage a battleship could absorb in a single line of battle action, absorbing large-caliber and medium-caliber fire from multiple enemy ships without flinching though with noticeable lack of success in striking back.

Fuso on the other hand went down to what's usually believed to be a single torpedo hit.

That is evidence of pure luck they had. because it's armor was not a joke