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1/700 A-125 Design (Improved Mutsu) Main Armament
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The Imperial Japanese Navy budget for 1916 provided funds for two battle cruisers and a single battleship, to be finalized and ordered the following year. The new dreadnought was to be built according to Design A-102 and was named Nagato, built in response to the American laid down of the Colorado class battleships (the first 16'' armed superdreadnoughts); the former two units eventually became Amagi and Akagi, to which another pair would be added before the entire Amagi class would be cancelled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922.
The passing of the 1916 Big Navy Act in the US spurred the Japanese government to order the construction of three further dreadnoughts so as not to fall behind the major naval powers; the ships were to be named Mutsu, Tosa and Kaga. There were issues raised as to what design the next ship should be built upon: a repeat Nagato, an improved Nagato design or a completely new one (the Tosa design).
In the event Mutsu was ordered as a repeat Nagato due to lack of money (in fact the ship was partially funded by public donations, one of the reasons the Japanese were very keen on keeping her at Washington), and that the pair of two ships classes (2 Nagato and 2 Tosa) would have made for more homogeneous battle squadrons than Nagato, an improved Mutsu and two Tosa, or Nagato and three Tosa class.
However detailed design studies were made for an improved version (Design A-125) of Nagato, sometimes referred to as 'improved Mutsu', for the second ship of the class, which was quite the leap from the original design. She kept the same size of the former at 215.8 mt oa length with a thousand tons added, to a standard displacement of 33,800 tons. The extra tonnage allowed the designers to squeeze in a fifth main battery turret (for a total of ten 41 cm guns) by reducing superstructure footprint in area and developing in height, while still keeping sixteen of the 14 cm guns (four dropped compared to Nagato), four 76 mm weapons and four above water torpedo tubes (half of those fitted on Nagato). For such a modest increase in displacement and the addition of an entire main battery turret, the design was quite the achievement, since it kept the same armour protection as Nagato (inclined 305 mm belt, 70 mm armoured deck), same speed (26.5 kn maximum), and same range (10,000 nm at 16 kn) of the former.
In the event this 'improved Mutsu' was not brought forward due to the aforementioned financial issues, even though it was a much superior design that just a repeat Nagato, although it became the basis for studies of the later Tosa class.
The passing of the 1916 Big Navy Act in the US spurred the Japanese government to order the construction of three further dreadnoughts so as not to fall behind the major naval powers; the ships were to be named Mutsu, Tosa and Kaga. There were issues raised as to what design the next ship should be built upon: a repeat Nagato, an improved Nagato design or a completely new one (the Tosa design).
In the event Mutsu was ordered as a repeat Nagato due to lack of money (in fact the ship was partially funded by public donations, one of the reasons the Japanese were very keen on keeping her at Washington), and that the pair of two ships classes (2 Nagato and 2 Tosa) would have made for more homogeneous battle squadrons than Nagato, an improved Mutsu and two Tosa, or Nagato and three Tosa class.
However detailed design studies were made for an improved version (Design A-125) of Nagato, sometimes referred to as 'improved Mutsu', for the second ship of the class, which was quite the leap from the original design. She kept the same size of the former at 215.8 mt oa length with a thousand tons added, to a standard displacement of 33,800 tons. The extra tonnage allowed the designers to squeeze in a fifth main battery turret (for a total of ten 41 cm guns) by reducing superstructure footprint in area and developing in height, while still keeping sixteen of the 14 cm guns (four dropped compared to Nagato), four 76 mm weapons and four above water torpedo tubes (half of those fitted on Nagato). For such a modest increase in displacement and the addition of an entire main battery turret, the design was quite the achievement, since it kept the same armour protection as Nagato (inclined 305 mm belt, 70 mm armoured deck), same speed (26.5 kn maximum), and same range (10,000 nm at 16 kn) of the former.
In the event this 'improved Mutsu' was not brought forward due to the aforementioned financial issues, even though it was a much superior design that just a repeat Nagato, although it became the basis for studies of the later Tosa class.
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