During the entire period of World War II, although aircraft carriers emerged on many battlefields and achieved considerable results, many countries still pursued the principle of naval development of "giant ships and cannons" and developed and built a number of battleships with huge tonnage and main gun calibers, in an attempt to continue the glory of this special era. Among these countries, Japan is a very unique one, before the Battle of Midway, Japan did not suffer the beating of aircraft carriers, their pursuit of "giant ships and cannons" was almost fanatical, developed the "Yamato" battleship, and then developed the "Yamato" class battleship on the basis of the "Yamato" class, and after the Battle of Midway, Japan also had a certain degree of disagreement on the direction of the development of the navy.
Most of the previous naval battles were won by the indiscriminate bombardment of large surface ships, so all countries attached great importance to the caliber of battleships' guns when developing ships, and Japan was no exception. The Japanese Navy equipped its two battleships, "Yamato" and "Musashi", with super firepower, and each battleship was equipped with three triple 460 mm guns, four triple 155 mm guns, and six twin 127 mm guns.
However, the Japanese did not intend to stop there, they also wanted to build a more powerful battleship, which was also named the "Yamato" class. Since there is a word "super", then his data should be more terrible than the "Yamato" class, and this is indeed the case. The "Super Harmony" class and the "Yamato" class have the same full load displacement, but the "Super Harmony" class is equipped with 3 twin 500 mm caliber guns and 16 long-barreled twin 100 mm caliber main guns, and the hull can protect against direct attacks from 406 mm caliber shells. Such terrifying data also makes the "Super Harmony" class a shocking sea monster.
However, the arrival of the Battle of Midway dealt a head-on blow to the Japanese Navy, and in this naval battle that can be recorded in the annals of human history, the Japanese Navy lost four heavy capital aircraft carriers, while the US Navy's aircraft carrier only lost one, and the US Army Air Force and Naval Air Force played a great role in this naval battle. The war made the whole world realize the important role of aircraft carriers, and there was a disagreement in Japan over the question of whether to leave or leave the "Yamato"-class battleships, and the navy was divided into two factions. One is the "battleship faction", which believes that the battleship should continue to be built to maintain the glory of the navy, and the other is the "aircraft carrier" faction, but they do not think that the aircraft carrier should be built on a large scale, but that the battleship should be transformed into a large aircraft carrier.
From today's point of view, these two methods are completely unfeasible, and the Japanese Navy at that time quarreled for these two methods, and the time came directly to 1944, at this time, the Japanese Navy did not talk about the construction of new large surface ships, and even how to resist the rapid offensive of the US Navy in the Pacific Ocean became a problem, and this discussion of the Japanese Navy became completely useless, and the giant ships of "super large and" were aborted and disappeared in the long river of history.
Throughout World War II, the United States and Japan defined battleships in complete opposite directions. The core of the US Navy's operations is aircraft carriers and their carrier-based aircraft, while battleships and other surface ships are the swords-worn guards of aircraft carriers, specifically responsible for protecting the safety of aircraft carriers, which is almost completely consistent with today's aircraft carrier formation combat system.
Japan's requirements for aircraft carriers are completely different, they use battleships as the core of naval ship formations, and aircraft carriers are responsible for protecting battleships. In the Battle of Midway, Japan planned to use aircraft carriers as bait to lure out the main fleet of the US Navy, guide them to the vicinity of the battleships, and then use the battleships' huge guns to destroy the US fleet.