Taxata-class battleship

The Taxata-class was a planned line of six battleships ordered by the Imperial Riyatic Navy in 1936 and 1937. They were designed and intended to counter the Ta’arohan Navy's numerically superior battleship force in the years leading up to the Summer War. However, the class's construction was interrupted by the Invasion of Riyata in early 1941. Ultimately, only two ships of the class were completed: Taxata and TBD (originally TBD), the latter of which was boarded and captured by Ta’arohan troops on !Date.

The Taxata-class ships each possessed a main armament of eight 17-inch guns, the largest caliber ever mounted on a warship at the time. If all six planned ships had been completed, they would have represented the most powerful force on the seas, eclipsing many other nations' navies which had been demilitarized and confined to interwar treaty regulations.

Main battery


The Taxata-class battleships were armed with a main armament of eight 430 mm/45 Type C guns mounted on three centerline turrets, with a twin-gun turret superfiring over a triple-gun turret in the fore pair, and a single triple-gun turret in the rear.