Joi→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: That Time a Luftwaffe Pilot Risked His Own Life to Save an American Bomber https://youtu.be/X7UDdoEyFB4 In this video: Prior to WW2, knowing that they couldn’t compete with the numbers of the US navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy quietly authorised the construction of the two largest battleships by weight ever seen in warfare- the Musashi and her sister ship, the Yamato. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/10/the-japanese-battleship-with-guns-that-weighed-more-than-entire-american-battleships/ Sources: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/16/reference/floating-fortress-musashi-symbol-japans-naval-ambitions-now-war-grave/#.Wed6vUt97rc http://www.historynet.com/killing-the-yamato.htm http://www.battleshipyamato.info/history.html http://www.battleshipyamato.info/weapons.html https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-battleship-yamato-2361234 http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/death-of-the-battleship-sinking-the-yamato-and-musashi/ http://ww2today.com/7-april-1945-us-planes-sink-yamato-worlds-largest-battleship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%B3%B6%E6%9D%91%E4%BF%A1%E6%94%BF5.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_A-150_battleship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ten-Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship