The 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun is a 41-centimeter breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It served as the primary armament in the Nagato-class dread
41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun from the battleship Mutsu outside the Yamato Museum
Rear view of the gun on display at the Yamato Museum
Nagato-class battleship
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The Nagato-class battleships were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy towards the end of World War I, although they were not completed until after the war. The last
41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun
…41-centimeter (16.1 in) breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It served as the primary armament in the Nagato-class dreadnoughts completed after the end of the war and in coast defense mountings. Two turrets and their guns were salvaged during the 1970s from the wreck…
Nagato at sea
Office of Naval Intelligence recognition drawing of the Nagato class
A twin 127 mm gun mount aboard Nagato