In December 1943, Yamato was torpedoed by an American submarine which necessitated repairs at Kure, where she would also be refitted with additional anti-aircraft guns and radar in early 1944. Musashi took over as the Combined Fleet flagship in early 1943, and Yamato spent the rest of the year moving between the major Japanese naval bases of Truk and Kure in response to American threats. Throughout 1942, she served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and in June 1942 Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet from her bridge during the Battle of Midway, a disastrous defeat for Japan. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941. Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior battleship fleet of the United States, Japan's main rival in the Pacific. They remained the largest warships constructed in Asia until the launch of the Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian in 2022.
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She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing nearly 72,000 tonnes (71,000 long tons) at full load and armed with nine 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns, which were the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. 'Great Harmony') was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before World War II. Sunk by American planes during Operation Ten-Go, 7 April 1945 Yamato Province, and an archaic name for Japan Yamato during sea trials off Japan near Bungo Strait, 20 October 1941
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