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Additionally, Fusō’s dual-purpose armament consists of four dual 5’’ (127 mm), which can engage both aerial as well as surface targets. Naturally, Fusō also possesses a healthy secondary battery, consisting of 16 6’’ (152mm) cannons, with eight guns being mounted in casemates above the armored belt on either side of the ship’s hull. Taking part in the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf, Fusō along with her sistership - Yamashiro - were both sunk in the Battle of Surigao Strait in October 1944. Fusō’s most notable engagement was also to become her last. Because of this, Fusō was largely relegated to auxiliary roles during the conflict, seeing little frontline action.

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In the interwar period, Fusō conducted several training missions and underwent two full reconstructions between 1930 - 1941, substantially changing the ship’s visual appearance and improving her combat capabilities.īy the start of WWII, Fusō was already considered to be a dated design, surpassed in combat capabilities by newer warships. Despite entering service during WWI, Fusō didn’t see any action in The Great War as the Central Powers’ forces were no longer present in Asia at the time anymore. The decision was made to build newer ships, but due to an economic recession at the time, only one new battleship, later becoming the Fusō, and four battlecruisers (Kongō-class) were ordered.įusō was laid down in March 1912, launched two years later and commissioned with the IJN in November 1915. This caused considerable problems in Japan’s naval expansion plans as suddenly all ships currently in construction became obsolete. They were eventually countered later in the war by the british, in which less Allied merchant ships were sunk and the British ended up having enough supplies for an invasion of Germany-controlled France.After the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 and HMS Invincible in 1907, two new warship classes emerged - the dreadnought and the battlecruiser.

The most example of submarines being usefully was Germany's U-Boat program during World War II, as they easily attacked Allied shipping over the Atlantic Ocean without any contest early in the war. If a submarine was damaged and needed a way of escape, it would usually dive 50-200 meters and then try to escape from enemy warships that way. They were also very vulnerable in the fact that anti submarine combat was very effective in taking down these submarines. The submarines main way of attacking was using torpedoes to attack, making them deadly when the submarine was close to another warship. This deck gun was not bigger than 5', and usually was not very effective. Submarines were not armored and very vulnerable to gunfire, and only had one deck gun themselves to use when on the surface. Submarines also could not be detected with a conventional radar, but instead had to be detected with a sonar, thus making cruisers and battleships on their own very vulnerable to these warships. They averaged a slow speed of 3 to 4 knots while submerged. Submarines were a special type of warship that was usually submerged into the water of the seas during naval combat.