After several years of improvements, dreadnought battleships consolidated into their definitive form, which is known as
"super-dreadnought". The definition of what a super-dreadnought really was may be vague, but we can consider as such any battleship conceived
during the years of the First World War, or immediately previous, whose main armament had a caliber of at least 343 millimeters. Super-dreadnought
battleships, after being modernized, were widely used during the Second World War, to the point that during the whole war in the Imperial Japanese
Navy every battleship was a super-dreadnought with the only exception of the Yamato and her sister Musashi.
American battleship USS TENNESSEE in 1943
American battleship USS NEW YORK in 1918
British battleship HMS IRON DUKE in 1919
British battleships of the QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS in 1914 and afterwards
German battleship SMS BAYERN in 1918
Japanese battleship MUTSU in 1921
Japanese battleship HYUGA in 1918
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